Over recent years, the government has been massively investing in large-scale water resource development projects across the country to tackle flooding and drought. However, experts warned Thailand will lose many of its unique freshwater species during the government's crusade against water issues.
As more than 48,000 new projects are scheduled for construction nationwide this fiscal year, ecological experts caution that many of them can cause serious harm to fragile river and wetland systems while endangering many endemic species that live there.
