Kiss Thai Muang goodbye (1 Viewer)

[paddleasia]

As usual, Nature is taking another backseat to development. The wonderful birding marshland known as Thai Muang is being filled in to make room for yet another resort.

Thai Muang is known as one of the easiest places to see Red-wattled Lapwings, River Lapwings, Gray-headed Lapwings, Oriental Pratincoles and a host of other species. Shorebirds also called this place home, but this is all coming to an end for them.

Before long, Thailand will be nothing more than an endless string of resorts, bars, tacky housing projects, prawn farms and brothels. It really sad. They either don't realize what they're losing or they simply don't care. :-C

Oh well, life goes on I guess... Thai Muang will be missed. :gn:

 

[Hanno]

Sounds a lot like Vietnam:-(

 

[paddleasia]

Sounds a lot like Vietnam:-(

To be fair, I guess it sounds a lot like everywhere in the world... it's just that I'm here and I care about what little is left. Every little loss really hurts.

I guess I'd better make it over to VN before it's all gone too, eh. :smoke:

 

[Hanno]

I guess I'd better make it over to VN before it's all gone too, eh.

No kidding, they are turning all the highland forests into Casinos and Hotels (no idea who will use those, but somebody is making a sh*t-load of money).

 

[Vectis Birder]

As usual, Nature is taking another backseat to development. The wonderful birding marshland known as Thai Muang is being filled in to make room for yet another resort.

Thai Muang is known as one of the easiest places to see Red-wattled Lapwings, River Lapwings, Gray-headed Lapwings, Oriental Pratincoles and a host of other species. Shorebirds also called this place home, but this is all coming to an end for them.

Before long, Thailand will be nothing more than an endless string of resorts, bars, tacky housing projects, prawn farms and brothels. It really sad. They either don't realize what they're losing or they simply don't care. :-C

Oh well, life goes on I guess... Thai Muang will be missed. :gn:

It is so depressing that so many precious things get lost to the evil twin demons Money and "Progress" (progress my arse).

 

[nickupton]

Before long, Thailand will be nothing more than an endless string of resorts, bars, tacky housing projects, prawn farms and brothels.

Don't forget advertising hoardings, factories and abandoned buildings of all varieties. Driving to Khao Yai from Bangkok one passes through an endless string of hideously ugly "development".

I often wonder when this destruction of the landscape will have an effect on tourism as it surely will at some point.

 

[Birding2asia]

And this is a little bird list of all the species that could and hopefully can still be found at Thai Muang.

 

[paddleasia]

And this is a little bird list of all the species that could and hopefully can still be found at Thai Muang.

without the habitat, no birds. The construction workers with their slingshots (catapults) will surely take care of any birds that dare show up in the area now. :-C

 

[nickupton]

I am told that the marsh here is still intact and the birds are still there in good numbers. Never been there myself but there were some excellent sightings from Thai Muang marsh just a few months back.