Kingdom under fire 2 thailand plus#

Put yourself into each photo as if you were actually there and see the magnificent wildlife that still survives in the Kingdom. We also need to communicate through photographic books like this one, and the news media, to those who are uneducated about wildlife so they may understand and see the beauty of the natural world.Įnjoy this photographic trip into the wild of Thailand. We are at a crossroads where education and a sense of awareness for all natural living things are the most important tools to save what is left of our forests and wildlife. Many species of plant and animal life have already become extinct to be seen now only in text books, drawings and old photographs. Now, perhaps only 20-percent of forest cover remains, of which half to three-quarters is in protected areas. The destruction of our flora and fauna by this and previous generations will have severe consequences in the new millennium, affecting the weather, land and lives of people all over the country and the world.Īt the end of the World War II, Thailand’s forests covered an estimated 75-percent of the country. We are thus faced with an intractable dilemma.

Kingdom under fire 2 thailand plus#

In recent times, severe world weather conditions caused by the El Nino and La Nina phenomena, destructive typhoons, hurricanes, cyclones and their disastrous effects of drought and floods, plus earthquakes have wreaked havoc globally. Wherever this devastation takes place, it contributes to climatic change through greater greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere. Forests are being cut down for timber, livestock ranches, farms, food and housing. Recent surveys tell us that an area of tropical forest the size of New York’s Park is being destroyed every ten minutes, the size of New Orleans every month and that of the British Isles every year. Human population growth, industrialization and man’s quest for money and power are the main culprits. Inside Jacket About this book:Īs one millennium passes and another begins, the world has lost much of its rain forests and their inhabitants in the destructive movement of progress. Very few photographs of black leopard, also known as black panther, have been taken in the wild of Thailand. The author, from his vantage point in a photo blind up in a tree, hears langur monkey and barking deer call out as the cat passes by. Leopard Panthera pardus late one afternoon, just before disappearing into the forest. Truly in his prime, he has survived danger all his life. This magnificent solitary bull, estimated age about 12 years, has worn his horns down at the tips and damaged the bases by years of fighting with other bulls. Gaur Bos gaurus in Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary. “In my opinion, we should not sit around and argue about the way we use the forest because very little remains“