About 200 groups were represented at the meeting chaired by the committee’s vice chair Theerapat Prayurasiddhi and public hearing panel chair, Choochai Supawongse. The committee is among 13 reform committees set up following the stipulation of the charter and the new national reform law promulgated over a month ago. The committee has divided its work into six sub-sectors, covering land resources (land, mining, forests and wildlife), marine and coastal resources, water resources, biodiversity, environmental quality, and natural resources and environmental management. In regard to the marine and coastal resources management reform, the participants wanted new laws to protect the country’s interests in resources, as well as new maps to address them properly. More stringent law enforcement should also be implemented, they proposed.

Source: The Nation Bangkok November 09, 2017 13:52 UTC