Seasonally Flooded Forest in Pak Yam village area, located beside Lower Songkram river, the project comprises of 994 acres of study area, which emphasizes on the research involves Pak Yam Village (38.4 acres) and designing the knowledge and reclamation center of Pak Yam village, Songkram river (130.4 acres). All of the above leads to total landscape designing area of 168.8 acres. From Nakorn Panom province’s development plan, its goal is set to improve and redeem the city’s natural and historical attractions in order to become the center of cultural, religious and ecological tourism in Indochina countries. So that the municipal government initiates “The knowledge and reclamation center of Pak Yam village, Lower Songkram basin” project to fulfill the development policy. It’s supported by MWBP (Mekong Wetlands Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Use Program) as a conservation and sustainable biodiversity usage project of Mekong basin, to generate consciousness in natural resources’ preservation and to harness the basin efficiently in the right way.                   

The Lower Songkram river basin has a distinct ecology system called “Seasonal Forest”, which stands for a forest that has to endure 3-4 months of immerse flood annually, serves as an essential nursery ground for aquaculture along Mekong river during drought season, and provides natural and ecological resources through its sediment when the water level decreases. Nowadays, the basin has been vastly destroyed by firewood concession and invasion of capitalists in agricultural industry, also with transforming the area for monoculture which leads to deterioration of ecosystem. Thus, the knowledge and reclamation center of Pak Yam village, Songkram basin (at the Southern part of Nakorn Panom province) aims to develop into the tourist attraction and learning center for people in the province,  to raise awareness of the value and how to properly use the basin , and to support ecological and cultural landscape’s tourism.

It is divided into 5 main sections which are the knowledge and reclamation center, ecological forestry, homestay area, community’s public space and agricultural farm(which has been adapted to suit the basin’s context). The planning and designing concept focuses on the flexibility and dynamic of the ecosystem in both rainy and drought seasons. To successfully design the project, it is essentially needed to understand the details of natural process in Songkram basin and other related knowledge in various fields to be integrated into the planning method that could practically reciprocate to both development and conservation at the same time.

Since the policy’s purpose is to increase the potential of Thailand’s economic and tourism without leaving negative consequences to ecosystem and communities, also to encourage the concerns for awareness of the basin’s infinite value and how to preserve it. The expected advantages including 1) To increase local communities’ quality of life by rural infrastructure, generate their income and make them attain sustainable lifestyles. 2) To become a knowledge center of Basin studies, in order to administrate the basin’s natural resources and to reclaim and preserve the basin. 3) To provide stability and abundance of the basin’s ecosystem, which would benefit positive effects toward human beings.