4. Community Members can use the school’s botanical garden as recreational area and life-leaning site, learning from school students’ exhibition and publication in different occasions. This way the community members realize the value of biodiversity and nature, yielding collaboration in conserving local trees and better care for the respective community’s environment. Today, biodiversity conservation efforts led by the students are replicated in other landscapes in Chiang Rai Municipality areas. The students and their teachers are the main mechanism to push this conservation forward and promote its success to the public. Eight schools affiliated with Chiang Rai Municipality have adopted the biodiversity conservation ini t iat ives and implemented thei r own environmental related projects in the schools. In addition, environmental education and biodiversity conservation are officially integrated into eight thematic subjects of the Chiang Rai Municipality School 5 curriculum. The school may become a place for best practice of biodiversity conservation by the students with the support of the municipality, local communities and provincial government agencies. One of the success factors is the participation from every sector and the strong sense of city communal ownership. It starts from the society’s family and school, and expands to the community as a whole. The municipality has won honorable awards and that proves Chiang Rai Municipality has enhanced economic and social development in line with natural resource and environmental development, in accordance with sustainable development principles. Proceedings of the International Conference on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services for the 221 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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