Chiang Rai Municipality was awarded for “Good Practice” city for Urban Biodiversity Conservation and was invited to be present and receive this award in the event of World Habitat Day 2011 in Aguascalientes, Mexico on 3 October 2011. Fig.6 Later, The Chiang Rai Municipality has designed and implemented a natural ecosystem to become a biodiversity learning site and environmental study center at Nong Pueng swamp. In this wetland ecosystem, the students survey aquatic plants and aquatic animals in Nong Pueng swamp as the “Two Fig.7 Heart in One Tree Project ” which is a joint exploration and conservation activity by students from Chiang Rai Municipality School 5 and community members focusing on large trees around Nong Pueng. In 2014, Chiang Rai Municipality got ASEAN Award on Sustainable Urban Environment for its waste and green area management by ASEAN Working Group on Environmentally Sustainable Cities (AWGESC) which Nong Pueng swamp is the Environmental Learning Center “Wetland Ecosystems” under the public-private partnership project. The projects in Nong Pueng include “Two Heart in One Tree” Project, Miyawaki Method Reforestation Project and Plant Biodiversity Conservation Project. Fig.8 The concept of “A quality tree grown from a quality seed lasts gracefully and prospers” inspires the management of Chiang Rai City to nurture the young generation, considered as promising saplings of the city, to grow gracefully and become “the citizens of Chiang Rai” which cherishes their hometown and volunteers to protect this “wide variety of the assets” to last for the future generations. So far, we have been so proud that the “biodiversity” has been completely integrated in the 8 Subject Groups, and we still keep improving continuously of 2 learning levels, i.e. junior high school (Mattayom 1-3), and senior high school (Mattayom 4-6). 216 Proceedings of the International Conference on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Policy and Practice 27-29 June 2016, Cha-am, Phetchaburi, Thailand
Proceedings of International Conference on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services for the Sustainable Development Goals : Policy and Practice 27-29 June 2016 at the Sirindhorn International Environmental Park, Cha-am, Phetchaburi, Thailand
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