News
How can increasing population of gibbons in the forest reduce the effects of global warming?
December 24 2009 22:11:24
 Gibbons and other wildlife such as birds and monkeys are critical to the survival of tropical rainforest, contributing to the regeneration of its plants and trees.
Early Christmas present for Jita Family!
December 16 2009 15:01:06
After many months of anticipation and hard work, GRP staff and volunteers were excited to release another gibbon family on the 10th of December. This family, consisting of Tony, Jita, and baby Claire, already seem to be at home foraging and swinging in the rainforest, and while we will continue to supply food and observe them, we think they will adapt well to life back in the wild.
seized elephant tusks
August 24 2009 12:03:45
A customs official stands nex toprior a press conference at the Airport Customs in Bangkok on Friday.
The great elephant exodus
August 15 2009 17:37:51
As the elephant dragged its feet towards city hall, the chains draped from its neck swung like twin pendulums. The animal’s dusty skin fit loose on its 30-year-old body. Where a right eye belonged, there was only a crusty socket.
Tourists Flock to Gibbons Sanctuary in Thailand
August 13 2009 16:25:25
In addition to white sandy beaches and sunshine, Phuket now offers tourists a chance to be part of an animal conservation centre for gibbons. The program started in 1992 and is open for long and short-term volunteers.
Country’s largest wildlife farms inspected
August 13 2009 15:51:04
VietNamNet Bridge – Three farms permitted to experimentally breed wild animals are located in the southern province of Binh Duong. A recent inspection revealed that they had thousands of rare animals of nearly 100 species.
Fund formed to save sea turtles
June 29 2009 12:50:33
The Department of Marine and Costal Resources will dole out US$3,687 (about 130,000 baht) as part of its annual contribution to a fund set up with the objective to conserve and protect the habitat of sea turtles in the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asian region.
Elephant electrocuted in national park
June 08 2009 12:26:31
A 14-year-old female elephant died of electrocution in Rayong's Khao Chamao-Khao Wong National Park yesterday morning.
Natural splendour in the East
May 25 2009 11:49:36
Thailand's largest remaining tract of lowland evergreen rainforest, and a very important wildlife sanctuary
Thai Navy makes grisly tiger seizure
May 19 2009 04:28:06
Nongkhai/Bangkok, Thailand —The Thai Navy has seized two Tiger carcasses and 45 pangolins, and arrested eight traffickers who had planned to smuggle the animals across the Mekong River into Lao PDF.
HUAIKHAKHAENG: A sanctuary of beauty The magnificent Thai riverine ecosystem and World Heritage Site needs vigilance to maintain its majesty
April 28 2009 06:56:05
Mist hangs in the air early one morning as a green peafowl calls from up-river. A male bird, its long tail feathers glistening in the early sun, struts across a sandbar looking for something to eat. A pair of wreathed hornbills fly into a fruiting fig tree and two white-winged ducks honk as they wing past Khao Ban Dai ranger station deep in the interior of Thailand's top protected area.
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