Environmentalists from Satun province submitted a petition to Unesco and a House panel on land use on Tuesday, asking them to look into rock quarry concessions that they say threaten parts of a Unesco "Global Geopark" established in April 2019.
These concessions have applied to blast three mountains in Thung Wa, Langu, and areas between Khuan Ka Long and Khuan Don districts in the province. It is an area renowned for its abundance and diversity of fossils from the Paleozoic era.
