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Celebrating 10 years of the Big Trees project
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published : 11 Dec 2020 at 04:00
3 A Bodhi tree near Klong Ku Muang, behind the Supreme Court, which the Big Trees Project helped convince the Defence Ministry and City Hall to keep. Picture courtesy of Big Tree Project
The Big Trees Project is celebrating its 10th birthday this month. In 2010, a group of young people was dismayed by the lack of green space in Bangkok. While the city had advanced exponentially in infrastructure, the growth of public parks and urban flora paled in comparison. It felt stagnant. With a wild dream of creating more healthy green spaces within the concrete capital that would be accessible to anyone, we banded together as the Big Trees Project to work on giving all a quality of life that was not being met by just malls and markets.