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Myanmar IDP Families flee Airstrikes to the Thai Forest

In one of the world’s most intense conflicts, countless people from Myanmar, including various ethnic minorities, are forced from their homes and repeatedly driven from one settlement to another by aerial bombardments that have increasingly targeted civilian sites. As violence raged up on, word spread that the settlement in the forest at the Thai border was a safe haven and that the military would not risk an airstrike there. 

The Washington Post
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KNU Headquarters: The rebel stronghold in the Kayin State

For decades, Myanmar’s ethnic minorities have rebelled against the country’s military, but mostly on their own and with little success. Now, however, nearly three years after a military coup ousted Myanmar’s democratic government and triggered a civil war, it’s these ethnic rebels, camped out in the country’s mountains and jungles, who pose the biggest potential threat to the ruling junta.

The Washington Post
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The shark ray is vanishing from our oceans—and being made into jewelry

An overlooked online trade for bracelets and rings made from the bowmouth guitarfish is increasing pressure on the critically endangered animal

National Geographic
2022
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Thai fishermen and restaurants team up for sustainability
 
Fueled by a growing sense of eco-responsibility, demand for fish that are not caught by industrial techniques are on the rise.

National Geographic
2021
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The COVID outbreak and a culture of volunteerism in Thailand

Thailand is now at more than 2.1 million COVID-19 cases and 21,000 deaths during the 3rd wave of the outbreak where the Delta variant wrecks havoc in the capital. Those in need rely on volunteers to fill voids in the response efforts.

National Geographic
2020
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Dispatch: A look inside Thailand, which prevented coronavirus from gaining a foothold
 
Expecting the worst, a photographer set out to document the pandemic in Bangkok. He was surprised by what he found.

National Geographic
2019
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The Ray the World Forgot: Wedgefish Under Threat
 
The story of wedgefishes is one of the belated revelations. Almost before any real light has been shone on these species, we have realised that their populations have plummeted and that they face significant threats.

Save Our Seas Magazine
2018
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Thailand's Marine Protected Areas
 
Several decades of intensive exploitation of the rich two seas have taken a heavy toll on the marine and coastal zones of Thailand, resulting in major degradation of ecosystems and disastrous declines of natural resources. However, there seems to be a growing glimpse of hope with the recent revision and reform of management measures that are being implemented in the Marine Protected Areas, which could be the beginning of recovery and sustainable usage of Thai waters at last.

National Geographic Magazine (Thai Edition)
2017
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Pakbara: Dilemma of a Sleepy Shore
 
With the national level plan to construct a large-scale deepwater port at the sleepy fishing town in the southern-most tip of the Andaman coast of Thailand. The productive marine ecosystems of the sea of Satun and traditional livelihood of the coastal communities could be only a history.
 
National Geographic Magazine (Thai Edition)
2016
Bimini: Islands in the Stream
 
Bimini was the inspiration for Ernest Hemingway's famous novels, The Old Man and the Sea and Islands in the Stream. When he lived here in the late 1930's, the islands were the domain of big game fishermen and other adventurous souls who wanted to be close to nature. Seventy years on, Bimini is moving in a very different direction.

Save Our Seas Magazine
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Thailand's Andaman Sea: Fragile Future
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Nourished by two major currents of the Indian Ocean, the Andaman Sea of Thailand boast an impressive biological abundance and diversity of natural resources. But these soon may change with the current rate exploitation, as the fish stocks decline, while the coastal ecosystems degrade, the fate of this water is hanging on a thin thread.

National Geographic Magazine (Thai Edition)
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Sharks: Predators in Peril
 
With the global population declines and their sensitivity to overexploitation, sharks is one of the most threatened vertebrate group on Earth. Despite the global awareness and movement for conservation of these elasmobranches, the situation in Southeast Asia countries, such as Thailand is still relatively grim with over 90% declines were recorded in the past 10 years.

National Geographic Magazine (Thai Edition)
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