The National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department is expected to take a few days to consider a request from the production team of “Jurassic World 4”, the latest film the Jurassic Park franchise, to use three national parks as locations.
The department’s director-general, Atthaphon Charoenchansa, said today that the Hollywood production has already submitted its detailed plan for the use of the locations between June 17 and 28, which include the Kradan Island and Morakot cave in the Hat Chao Mai National Park in Trang province, Huai To waterfall in Khao Phanom Benja National Park in Krabi and Tapu, Nakha and Song Phi Nong islands in Phang-nga Bay National Park in Phang-nga province. Drones will also be used during the shoot, he added.
According to regulations covering the commercial use of the national parks, Atthaphon said the department charges the production 3,500 baht per day, with a surety of 2 million baht, for the 12-day use of the locations for filming, adding that there is an appendix to the contract which details the compensation to be paid for any damage caused to the environment, plants and wildlife during the filming period, if any.
He said that he has told the production team about the department’s concern about the potential environmental impacts and would like the filming activities to be environment friendly, such as equipment used in the creation of outdoor settings not affecting the environment and causing the least impact on the environment.
Atthaphon stressed the need to be strict, so as not to repeat the same mistakes made during the filming of “The Beach” in Maya Bay in Krabi in 2000.
That production felled trees and bulldozed Maya Beach, to create a new setting for filming, causing extensive damage to the environment and ecological system of the bay area.
