SDGs REPORT 20232-2024

54 Thaksin University Thale Noi Wetland is located at the northernmost part of Songkhla Lake, a lagoon that connects the Pak Phanang Basin and the Songkhla Lake Basin. It is Thailand’s first internationally important wetland (Ramsar Site). The Thale Noi Wetland has long provided vital support to local communities, especially to more than 50,000 people from 9 subdistricts, 5 districts, and 3 provinces, who directly depend on resources from the wetland. This includes activities such as sedge handicrafts, local fisheries, giant fish traps, coastal rice farming, and buffalo raising Swamp buffalo farming’ in the Thale Noi Wetland area is a tradition passed down for over 200 years, with its own unique characteristics. The free-range systemallows buffaloes to roam and feed freely in the wetland. They have adapted to the wetland environment, taking on an ecological role LIFE ON LAND Swamp Buffalo Farming in Thale Noi Wetland once held by elephants, which disappeared from the area 75 years ago. The Ministry of Agr iculture and Cooperatives and Phatthalung Province have selected the Thale Noi swamp buffalo to be registered as a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System (GIAHS). Of