{"id":12418,"date":"2020-12-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phakhaolao.la\/news\/why-should-the-next-generation-protect-forests\/"},"modified":"2024-11-10T09:58:21","modified_gmt":"2024-11-10T09:58:21","slug":"why-should-the-next-generation-protect-forests","status":"publish","type":"news-post","link":"https:\/\/phakhaolao.la\/en\/news\/why-should-the-next-generation-protect-forests\/","title":{"rendered":"Why should the next generation protect forests?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Come learn from youth across the Asia-Pacific region about why their generation should mobilize to protect forests.<\/p>\n<p>RECOFTC, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) are hosting the event on Wednesday, 16 December 2020 from 3 to 4:30 p.m. ICT at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fccthai.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Foreign Correspondents&#8217; Club of Thailand<\/a>\u00a0(FCCT). This event is free and open to all.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The event will also be livestreamed on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/recoftc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RECOFTC\u2019s Facebook page<\/a>. The event will be in English.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Opening remarks<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jongjin Kim, FAO Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative, FAO-RAP\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Dechen Tsering, Regional Director and Representative for Asia and the Pacific, UN Environment Programme\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Chandra Silori, Deputy Executive Director, RECOFTC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Panel members\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nanticha Ocharoenchai (Lynn), Writer, filmmaker and founder of Climate Strike Thailand<\/li>\n<li>Daniel Kent,\u00a0Regional Representative Asia Pacific, International Forestry Student Association (IFSA)<\/li>\n<li>Nopparat Anantaprayoon (Opal), Global Youth Biodiversity Network (GYBN) Thailand\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Apsana Kafle, Associate Fellow, RECOFTC Nepal\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The event will also celebrate\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.recoftc.org\/forests-pandemics-video-competition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">student video competition<\/a>. High school and college students from across the Asia-Pacific submitted 19 videos that answer the question: \u201cCan protecting forests prevent pandemics?\u201d The videos came from eight countries: Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, Philippines and Thailand.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Watch all the video submissions\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLCC5s4HpyZBs95DAQFGHpBlPCnQpZXxFh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the event, we will announce the winners of the student video competition.<\/p>\n<p>For more information,\u00a0contact\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:event@recoftc.org\">event@recoftc.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","format":"standard","news-type":[132],"class_list":["post-12418","news-post","type-news-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","news-type-events"],"acf":{"pkl_story_headline":"","pkl_story_authors":"","pkl_story_image":10433,"pkl_story_video":"","pkl_story_image_credits":"www.recoftc.org","pkl_story_file":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phakhaolao.la\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-post\/12418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phakhaolao.la\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phakhaolao.la\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news-post"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phakhaolao.la\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phakhaolao.la\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=12418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}