Sharing what BIGTrees shared on "Green Art Lab Alliance Asia Initiative (GALA Asia) in Dec 2015. The concept of GALA Asia is from GALA Europe which initiated by Trans Artists and several groups in Europe, including On-the-Move. GALA is a partnership between different European cultural organizations which care about environmental sustainability. GALA Asia Participants: COPART21 by Margaret Shiu, Director of Bamboo Curtain Studio Neverland: Green Art Lab Alliance by Yasmine Ostendorf Hong Kong: MaD team by Winki Cheng Indonesia: Common Room (Bandung) by Gustaff H. Iskandar Korea: Listen to the City by Eunseon Park Malaysia: Kontak! by Mohd Shaffiq Bin Ahmad Philippine: Youth for a Livable Cebu (YLC) by Francis Sollano Singapore: Brack by Alecia Neo Taiwan: Bamboo Curtain Studio by Catherine Lee Thailand: Bangkok art centre & BIGTrees project UK: British Council by Katelijn Verstraete UK: Julie's Bicycle by Luke Ramsay 　

1. YOU ARE WHAT
YOU BREATHE

2. BANGKOK: Increasingly dense construction has crowded out nature in downtown
areas, producing more traffic jams because more people with cars live in high-rise
buildings. It also destroys the last refuges of urban wildlife, a variety of birds and
squirrels that live in the mini-ecosystems of big trees.
BIGTrees Project :

3. The Big Trees group was born inside
a small design studio on a lane of
busy Sukhumvit, when the young
Thai designers there together with
other concerned residents in the
area noticed dozens of big, old trees
at the top of their lane being marked
to be chopped down to make way
for a car park of a massive new
mall.
They approached the plot owner's
son to persuade him to change the
mall's layout and save the trees. He
listened sympathetically, nodded a
lot - but one day chopped all the
trees down anyway.

4. CHOICE OF LIFE
2009 : BIGTrees choice is the biggest part of Human Being

5. [Dec 2009] That event five years ago kick-started our group that today has
over 94,000 followers on our facebook page, with an active core of 10.
WE MADE RIGHT CHOICE

6. WE MADE RIGHT CHOICE
Big Trees’ mission is to advocate, through public participation and public-private
partnership, the importance of big trees and public green spaces in the cities of Thailand.

7. Building Needs Trees : Urban Tree Care

8. First Urban Tree Care [May 2014]
Big Trees’ mission is to advocate, through public participation and public-private
partnership, the importance of big trees and public green spaces in the cities of Thailand.

9. We collaborate with many large organisations which support environmental project.

10. WE CREATE GREEN CHOICES [July 2015]
We collaborate with many large organisations which support environmental project.

11. We collaborate with landscape designer hub which support environmental project.

12. BANGKACHAO, The Best OASIS of Asia
(The New York Times Asia)
WE PROPOSE ECO TOURISM
We are not the oldie style conservative protester, but creative jigsaw puzzle player!

13. Bangkachao EAT ART Festival : Bike Map

14. Bangkachao EAT ART Festival : Exhibition
We work closely with mass media, government officers and other social influencers
for utmost effective result.

15. SAVE TREES THAILAND Campaign

16. SAVE Tree Tunnel in Nan [Feb-Mar 2015]

17. LOVE Tree : Changing cross mark to red heart

18. What will you hug when there are no more trees?

19. ART make it softer but stronger message
Killing Trees is Killing Us #savetreesthailand

20. SAVE TREES THAILAND Campaign

21. Respect your Elders (and Teaks, Pines and Rain Trees too)

22. [2014-2015] Love Heritage Trees Project on Social Media,
123 big trees were sent from public.

23. Love Heritage Trees Project, the Betel Palm Forest in Le Tong Khu,
one of the most unseen place in Tak province.
LOVE HERITAGE TREES Project

24. Love Heritage Trees Project, the Giant Rain Tree grow freely in Kanchanaburi
province, the most voted heritage tree in our social media.

25. And we collaborated with photographer and writer searching for 100 heritage trees
around Thailand.
“The Little Amazon” Banyan Tree Forest, Takuapa, Phangnga, Thailand

26. LOVE HERITAGE TREES Project
Golden Banyan Tree, Banthat mountains, Trang, Thailand
Giant Null Tree, Banthat mountain range, Trang, ThailandMalacca Teak, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand
The Biggest Cork tree, Trang, Thailand