Although much has been written about pollution in Thailand in the broadest sense of the word, the country is not alone in this.
Pollution, waste, illegally built hotels, traffic problems and a non-functioning sewage system are also a major problem in the Philippines. All this has the dubious honor of taking place in Boracy, a former vacation paradise in the Philippines. The Ministry of the Environment wants to limit this by closing the entire area to tourists for a year. The governor of this area protested against this decision, but this problem had been known for quite some time without anything being done about it. However, there is no choice left, action must be taken now. The final decision now rests with President Rodrigo Duterte.
In southern Thailand, vulnerable islands, such as the Phi Phi islands and coral areas, are also temporarily closed to tourists in order to give nature the chance to recover. In northern Thailand, in a beautiful forested area, villas were illegally built for a number of wealthy Thais, according to the television news. Due to the long-standing complaints of mountain residents and later the media about the clearcutting, attention is now being paid to this. However, Prime Minister Prayut has not yet ordered the demolition. He first wants to thoroughly study the situation. Read: “Weighing interests!”
Photo: Mass tourism on the beach of Maya Bay (Phi Phi).
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It will be closed to tourism from April 26, 2018. Open again on October 21, 2018.
That decision has already been made. Has little to do with pollution, that's the official story, but much more with paving the road that leads to the opening of large Chinese casinos. Closing especially smaller outlets for 6 months simply kills them. So it's all about money. Boracay is more or less sold to the Chinese. Duterte doesn't do much about that, by the way. 'If you don't have money, you're not my friend. So I go to China. Plenty of money,” Duterte said. https://edition.cnn.com/2018/04/09/asia/duterte-xi-jinping-boao-forum-intl/index.html
Now much of the clear-cutting and felling of trees is caused by European thinking about ecology. I live in a small muang near Uttaradit. When I leave the village I pass a wood chipper every day with a capacity of 100 to 150 tons of wood chips PER DAY. 6 days a week 7 days a week. Everything felled in an area slightly larger than the municipality of Eindhoven + Best + Son en Breugel + Nuenen + Geldrop. Result bare mountain slopes which are filled with bananas and rubber bombs. After harvesting the bananas and when it rains, this results in landslides. The temperature in Uttaradit city is about 2 to 4 degrees cooler than in the valley (horseshoe) where I am. The sun burns on the slopes and beams down into the valley.
Birds around the house which, according to my wife, brothers-in-law and mother-in-law, used to be (until 5 to 10 years ago) only found in the woods (jungle). Also many more reptiles and snakes around the house. Seek the coolness and food.
It is not only tourism that matters, but also the logging for European power stations (The wood from Uttaradit therefore explicitly goes to the NETHERLANDS upon inquiry)
What is "European thinking" dear Rori? I do know that King Poemiepon called on his citizens to save the environment and explicitly mentioned deforestation and landslides. In the royal gardens (Mae Fa Luang) on the border (near Chiang Mai) there is a permanent exhibition about this.
Or are you talking about the global system around, for example, the buying off / transferring of CO2 emissions, etc.? Which enables rich countries to buy off their environmental degradation in poorer countries. But that is also something that high gentlemen from all countries have jointly agreed to.