Lertsak Kumkongsak
Lertsak Kumkongsak is an environment rights defender, who has been involved in community-based campaigns against the mining industry in Thailand for more than 20 years. He is the coordinator of the Ecological and Cultural Study Group and Campaign for Public Policy on Mineral Resources (PPM) and of the “People’s anti-mining network of Thailand”. He has worked with the Udon Thani Conservation Group (Udonthani province, Isaan region, northeastern Thailand) against the Potash mining project, which the group has been fighting for more than 15 years. In 2015, Lertsak won the Komol Kimthong Foundation award for his work on environmental issues.