About   WFT

                                Wildlife Fund Thailand (WFT) was established on October 13^th 1983, under 
      The Royal Patronage of H.M. the Queen of Thailand. WFT is a private, non-profit organization
      dedicated to the  conservation of natural resources and the maintenance of biological diversity 
      and to a balanced  environment to ensure long term success in national development.

                 One main WFT objective is to invite and encourage people, especially in Thailand, to help
       manage  and be aware of environmental issues developed or developing in Thailand today, 
       through our studies   conducted from various WFT projects.

                 Through the government’s policy of over managing too much natural resource and under
      management of human activities, the results are a deterioration of our natural resources. From 
      the  building of road and dams to deforestation and hunting to simple greed and ignorance, the 
      results are  sudden and often devastating changes in our eco-system, way of life and culture.

                 Established with the objective of balancing our natural system, WFT’s main belief is to 
      conserve   our natural resources from the peak of the mountain to the bottom of the sea as
      one functioning living  system. 

                 Why do we have to save wildife

                Although there are approximately 64,000 km² of forest in Thailand, which are declared
       as    conservation forests (national parks, wildlife sanctuaries) 22,400 km² of forest is still on 
       the process  of approval. Moreover the government’s policies in developing the nation are the
       main threats of  Thailand’s natural resources. For example, building unused roads to satisfy
        our politicians’ desires,   or dams, can destroy the homes of many animals. Destroying their 
       food resources, trees are cut down, animals are forced to leave their natural habitats and so 
       forth.

               Elephant has a major role in nature as well as culture in Thailand. It also acts as the 
       distributor  of plants (elephant droppings). Tiger has the duty of maintaining the populations’ 
       density of other animals. Every animal in the natural world has a duty to maintain the balance 
       of the ecosystem.

               WFT realized that wildlife and forest depend on each other. To destroy wildlife is to destroy 
      the  heart of the eco-system. WFT in the past has played a key role in proposing for changes
       regarding  the Wildlife Conservation Acts. in 1992 to enable us to conserve our natural resources
       more effectively.

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