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Green peafowl flourish in Thailand’s northern forests, but conflict looms
by Carolyn Cowan on 9 July 2021
Green peafowl (Pavo muticus) are thought to occur across 16% of their former range in mainland Southeast Asia, confined to a handful of isolated forests by a legacy of forest habitat loss, overhunting, and conflict with humans.
A new study documents a thriving population in a network of four protected areas in Phayao province in northern Thailand; it is the largest population yet recorded in mainland Southeast Asia.
While the green peafowl population in Phayao’s protected forests appears to be thriving, the new study spotlights growing conflict with farmers as peafowl venture into adjacent cropland to raid rice and maize.
CONFIDENCE IN EVs FUELS THAI MARKET
published : 19 May 2021 at 09:54
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Just as growing environmental awareness and advancing EV technology have driven a surprising increase in global EV sales, these same factors have also significantly increased Thai car users’ enthusiasm for switching to EVs.
Their growing confidence in the long-term advantages of EVs combined with their environmental consciousness have seen EV sales in Thailand continuing to grow in 2020, on the back of flourishing investment by both Thai and local investors. With a solid development path for the local EV industry, Thailand’s EV market is firmly set on an accelerated growth trajectory over the next few years.
Old city walkway to get a facelift
6 Bangkok Green Bridge will draw tourists, the BMA predicts
published : 4 Apr 2021 at 04:33
6 Greener and safer: Bangkok Metropolitan Administration is spending 260 million baht on a facelift for an elevated walkway running from Sarasin intersection near Lumphini Park and Benjakitti Park in Klong Toey district.
Communities near an elevated walkway on Witthayu Road appear optimistic about City Hall s plan to spend about 260 million baht on redesigning a two-decade old, 1.3-kilometre bridge into the so-called Bangkok Green Bridge.
Chiraphat Chai-amphon, a resident of Polo community, said he didn t really care if this project was intended to woo voters or not as he fully supports the project as long as it is implemented properly.
Study shows how functional biomaterials rely on interfacial protein layer to transmit signals to living cells
An interdisciplinary research team at Lehigh University has unraveled how functional biomaterials rely upon an interfacial protein layer to transmit signals to living cells concerning their adhesion, proliferation and overall development.
According to an article published today in
Scientific Reports, the nanoscale features and properties of an underlying substrate do not impact the biological response of cells directly. However, these properties indirectly influence cell behavior through their control over adsorbed proteins.
In the article, Nanostructure of bioactive glass affects bone cell attachment via protein restructuring upon adsorption, the Lehigh team demonstrates that living cells respond to interfacial layer characteristics that arise as a consequence of micro- and nano-scale structures engineered into a substrate material.