Banners opposing the government’s land bridge mega project have surfaced in Phato district of Chumphon province and conservation groups will hold a forum for discussion of the project at the Phato Tambon Administrative Organisation’s office on November 15th.
Sak-anan Plathong, a lecturer at the Department of Biology in Faculty of Science of Prince of Songkhla University, said that the proposed land bridge project would be located in the Andaman Sea Nature Reserves, which were nominated by Thailand for inclusion in the UNESCO world heritage site list two years ago.
He said that at issue is not that the project will delay the listing of the reserves, but that it could have extensive impacts on marine resources, mangrove and coastal forests, which are known to be the breeding grounds of sea turtles and other marine creatures.
One of the most worrisome aspects of the project, he…
