Help mark Global Tiger Day
published : 28 Jul 2021 at 04:00 (Photo courtesy of facebook.com/DNP1362)
To mark the Global Tiger Day, which falls on July 29 each year, the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation is holding a virtual exhibition and online talks via its Facebook and globaltigerday2021.com, starting tomorrow.
Presented under the theme Thailand s Tigers Forever: Moving Forward To The Future , the virtual exhibition will feature 20 booths that provide information on tiger conservation issues through video, slides, photography and e-books.
The exhibition will run until Aug 27 and viewers will learn about the tiger situations in the past to present, as well as reports of tiger conservation of related organisations.
A horseshoe bat found in Chachoengsao province (photo by the environment ministry).
Local researchers attempted to allay public fears by saying the coronavirus found in a horseshoe bat population in Chachoengsao last year is not a strain that is transmissible to humans, after several reports suggested that the Covid-19 pandemic may have originated in Thailand. They are in the same family [of coronaviruses], but they do not cause Covid-19. As of now, there is no evidence to show that the strain we found in bats [in Chachoengsao] can be transmitted to humans, said Supaporn Wacharapluesadee, a researcher with the Thai Red Cross Emerging Infectious Diseases-Health Science Centre.