Presentation video RSPG-PNRU

   The booths exhibited by organizations working in line with RSPG-PNRU

  Background RSPG-PNRU

  RSPG Way of Life : Honesty Resolution Development Unity and Integrity

Activity 1: Resource Protection

Conducted in response to the royal initiative of Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, this activity protects natural forests of organizations regardless of being government agencies and private organizations and has no policy to change their original conditions. This activity excludes forests under the control of the Royal Forest Department (except for ones which the Royal Forest Department gives to RSPG for the purpose of RPSG) and areas in dispute with people. Also, the activity covers other areas, namely areas of the Study and Development Centers in accordance with the royal Initiative, and public forests, and school forests, zoo forests, dam forests such as ones of the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand. In addition, this activity includes forests of the private organizations whose owners confer their rights to RPSG in response to the royal Initiative. In this activity, codes for trees are generated. Also, codes identifying locations of biological resources including animals, microorganisms, and other physical resources are generates. Information about the cultural resource and wisdom is gathered. Additionally, this activity encourages villages to recruit volunteers, for forests being well-preserved and people being well-educated about their resources will help facilitate effective conservation and utilization.

Activity 2: Resource Survey and Collection

This activity is carried out by organizations performing in accordance with the royal Initiative. It does not cover the areas under the resource protection. The activity aims to survey and collect genes of biological resources, record information about cultural resources and wisdom, as well as physical resources in the areas prone to change, such as forests which are going to change into gardens, areas on islands which are going to change into tourist attractions, and areas of organizations performing in accordance with the royal initiative upon which roads and constructions are going to be built within distance of 50 km, for fear that these resources would disappear. RSPG collaborates with the organizations performing in accordance with the royal Initiative to survey local resources and biological resources, and to collect and preserve them as dried or preserved samples. Also, physical resources and other resources are collected as seeds, animal samples, microorganism samples, mushroom samples, fungus samples, and other samples. Moreover, information about the resources is kept in the data bases.

Activity 3: Resource Conservation

This activity follows the resource survey and collection activity. In this activity, valuable plants prone to extinction are grown in safe places, known as resource protection areas, namely the six Royal Development Study Centers countrywide, and areas of research centers, together with agricultural experiment stations of the Department of Agriculture, zoos, provincial areas, and area of educational institutes that join the royal initiative projects. To conserve these resources, some plant genes are kept in forms of seed tissue and stored as genetic materials in the gene bank of RSPG at the Chitralada Palace, the Plant Genetic Conservation Center, RSPG in Klongpai, and other organizations.

Activity 4: Resource Conservation and Unitization

This activity aims to evaluate the potentials of the plant genes and other resources that have been surveyed, collected, and planted for conservation and utilization. Research into the resource potentials is planned. Also, this activity covers analyses of physical conditions of these resources, such as soil minerals and water properties. Moreover, it includes biological studies, morphology, physiology, nutritiology (or studies such as composition, pigment, and smell), planting and propagating (e.g. tissue culture of plants that have never been studied), gene classification by means of biomolecules, and DNA footprint collection, and designated area management for resource conversation. This activity is carried out in collaboration with the several universities, departments, research institutions, and agricultural experiment stations, action groups, and RSPG academic divisions working in accordance with the royal Initiative.

Activity 5: Resource information center

This activity is performed by the research information center, RSPG at the Chitralada Palace in association with organizations working in accordance with the royal Initiative, aiming to record information gained from the surveys and collections, evaluate, conserve, and utilize the three kinds of resources. To achieve these purposes, the working groups create databases of dried plants, local resources, and other resources, namely marine animals, microorganisms, and information gained from RPSG activities. To make them available nationwide, resource databases are linked together by of RPSG organizations performing in accordance with the royal Initiative. These databases can be used for planning on developing plant genes and resources. And RPSG works as a consultant and coordinator to develop the database center and identify a framework in accordance with the RPSG masterplans.

Activity 6: Resource Development Planning

In this activity, the databases gained from Activity 5— the Resource Information Center— are used as information for considering the potentials of plant genes, animal genes, and microorganisms, etc. RSPG coordinates with scholars and experts from several organizations and formulates long-term plans. Afterwards, RPSG brings them to HRH Maha Chakri Sirindhorn to consider, in order that HRH will select plans and order the potential organizations to implement them towards genetic development.

Activity 7: Raising Consciousness of Resource Conservation

This activity raises consciousness among young people and Thai people in general so that they will realize the importance and usefulness of the three kinds of resources, and effectively use them, which is essential for conserving national resources in accordance the royal initiative in that it places the importance on young people. Rather than teaching them, or making them feel stressed, this activity provides young people with a training to enable them to understand the usefulness of the resources, appreciate their beauty, and yearn for conserving them. The learning media of this activity includes not only school botanical gardens in which living, dried, and preserved plants are gathered but also libraries in which they can study. In addition, this activity promotes continuous studies and collections of rare plants prone to extinction as well as artifacts of local wisdom. Besides, the learning media include collections in various museums, such as plant museums, natural history museums, natural history museums of Thai islands and seas, and local museums, etc. These museums are used as a learning medium to raise awareness of plant genetic conservation, so that the young people are able to directly experience plants and understand their usefulness and admire their beauty.

Activity 8: Special Activities Supporting Resource Conservation

This activity allows government agencies and private organizations to join RSPG in supporting RSPG activities by various means, such as providing funds or conducting activities in line with the RPSG (Activities 1-7) within the masterplan frameworks. Moreover, this activity gives young people and the general public opportunities to learn about various kinds of natural resources according to their interest and ability. RPSG invites experts of several different fields to give guidelines for studying and founding clubs, such as RSPG biologist clubs, and academic education clubs. RSPG imparts knowledge to the young people and the general public and raises their consciousness of conserving national resources.