IBD2025

Session 1: Biodiversity and Food Security

Director FAO office in Thailand, Thailand

Topic: to be confirmed
Date: 5 November 2025
Time: to be confirmed

Session 2: Biodiversity and Health

Professor Emeritus Dr.Henrik Balslev
Department of Biology, Aarhus University, Denmark

Topic: “Ethnobotany of the Thai flora”
Date: 5 November 2025
Time: to be confirmed

Professor Dr.Chayan Picheansoonthon
The Academy of Science, The Royal Society of Thailand Bangkok, Thailand

Topic: “Diversity of Plants, Animals and Minerals in Thai Traditional Medical Wisdom”
Date: 5 November 2025
Time: to be confirmed

Session 3: Biodiversity and Tourism

Mr.Weerasak Kowsurat
Former Thai Minister of Tourism and Sports, Thailand

Topic: Nature Positive & Tourism
Date: 6 November 2025
Time: to be confirmed


Session 4: Biodiversity and Environmental Rehabilitation

Prof. Dr. Kasue Fujiwara
Yokohama City University, Japan

Topic: The restoration of natural forests and biodiversity based on Miyawaki method for human life
Date: 6 November 2025
Time: to be confirmed

Prof. Dr. Box, to be confirmed

Topic: to be confirmed
Date: 6 November 2025
Time: to be confirmed


Session 5: Biodiversity and Cultural Conservation

Prof. Dr. Peter C. van Welzen
Chair in Tropical Plant biogeography Naturalis Biodiversity Center Leiden, Netherlands

Topic: How can the Flora of Thailand contribute to Nature Conservation?
Date: 6 November 2025
Time: to be confirmed

Prof. Dr. Chen Lihong
Secretary General of Asean Apiculture, China

Topic: to be confirmed
Date: 6 November 2025
Time: to be confirmed


Plenary Discussion: Biodiversity Management to Overcome Global Crisis

  1. Representative of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Thailand
  2. Representative of ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity
  3. Professor Emeritus Dr. Kraisid Tontisirin, to be confirmed
  4. Miss Nunnapus Pongwitoon Community Engagement Team Lead, GYBN Thailand