Asia · South-Eastern Asia
8 projects · 8 organizations
In Surat Thani, WWF is helping a Saleng Association of informal tricycle-and-sidecar waste collectors sign formal MoUs with junk shops so the shops owe the collectors incentives.
Lek Chailert's Chiang Mai sanctuary network giving over 100 rescued elephants — freed from logging, riding, and circus work — a peaceful natural home.
A citizen network of scientists and activists drafted Thailand's own Clean Air Act, and in 2025 got it through parliament's lower house without a single vote against.
BioThai has spent nearly three decades backing farmer networks that recover native rice varieties, local vegetables and tropical fruits, and in September 2026 it rallied 146 groups against UPOV 1991 seed rules.
On Asalha Bucha 2025 worshippers at more than 90 temples walked the sacred circuit holding young trees rather than smoky candles and incense, then took them home to plant.
A Karen (Pga k'nyau) indigenous community association defending traditional rotational farming and customary forest stewardship in northern Thailand.
Two Thai sisters turned a high-school coral-planting project into the country's first youth-led coral restoration nonprofit, taking volunteers underwater to grow reefs from Phuket to Koh Tao.
A lead processing plant flushed its waste into the creek a Karen village drank from, and every one of the village's 221 residents was poisoned. Winning took nineteen years.