New World Heritage Site forest imperils Thai indigenous people

When Gib Tonnarmpech and her family were forced to leave their home in Thailand's Kaeng Krachan National Park by authorities, ...

With social media and academics, Thai villagers save ancestral forest

The villagers of Ban Boon Rueang in northern Thailand had long known that they benefited from the community wetland forest ...
The Columbian

Clark Asks: Have a question about Thai Forest monks?

Nestled in the woods near White Salmon is a small group of Theravada Buddhist monks following the Thai Forest tradition. The Pacific Hermitage has been in White Salmon for nearly a decade and depends ...
Simon Fraser University

Thai Forest Buddhism Enters the British Columbian Forest: Building Birken Monastery in the 1990s

In April 1994, the Venerable Sona (ne Tom West), a Coquitlam, BC-born-and-bred Buddhist monk from the austere and orthodox Thai Forest Tradition of Theravada Buddhism, travelled to a complex of ...