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REPORT: Changes give forest protection centre more authority, ease in identifying encroachers

January 20, 2019

CHEEWAPAP Cheewatham recently stepped down as leader of Thailand’s most powerful forest suppression taskforce, Phaya Prai, after nearly five years at the helm.

Raid on forest encroachers finds land for sale

May 29, 2018

MANY OF those charged with encroaching on forest near Khao Yai National Park, a world heritage site, are defying the law by refusing to leave their seized plots and even putting the land up for sale.

Taskforces arrest Koh Pha-ngan resort, restaurant owners in ongoing joint operation to tackle fores

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 06, 2018

Resorts and restaurants in at least seven locations scattered around the popular tourist island of Koh Pha-ngan in Surat Thani province were found to have encroached upon forest reserves and Thansadet National Park, while 12 others have land documents suspected by the authorities of being forgeries.

Anti-poaching squad arrests coordinator of Phayung logging gang

SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 2018

After a months long cat-and-mouse chase, forest crime suppression officials from the Forest Protecting Operation Centre (FPOC) have nabbed what they believe to be the master-mind or a key coordinator of the Phayung logging gang.

Rosewood smuggling case implicates resort owned by former senior police officer

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 02, 2017

As the investigation into smuggled rosewood expands, Forest Protecting Operation Centre (FPOC) law enforcement officials have found that a resort in a popular tourist attraction in the Wang Nam Khiao of in Nakhon Ratchasima province is involved.

Forest crime suppression forces determined to nab transnational Siamese rosewood logging gang

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2017

Integrated forces for suppressing forest crime under the Forest Protecting Operation Centre have expanded an investigation in a bid to nab a transnational Phayung (Siamese rosewood) logging gang, believed to be the largest of its kind.