Silpakorn University

Chonburi, Thailand Thailand

NGO / Public Service

Eastern Thailand comprises the eight provinces of Prachin Buri, Nakhon Nayok, Chachoengsao, Sa Kaeo, Chon Buri, Rayong, Chanthaburi and Trat. They stand in a tropical zone that possesses a great biological diversity and a rich abundance of natural resources, such as the upper East with a world heritage forest that is the source of foods and medicines , and the lower East with a coastline that is the habitat of a wide range of aquatic animals and plants. Although the enormous resources make the East an important food source of the world , the Eastern Seaboard Development Plan, the implementation of which started in 1981, brought radical changes to the East in the past three decades, with...