"Forest Encroachment"

A resort house worth Bt5 million located in Mae Krabung subdistrict of Kanchanaburi Province is now being demolished after the court ruled that it has encroached on about 14 rai of land that belongs to Khuean Srinagarindra National Park. 

Two former prosecutors in Phuket were handed bail after they were charged and taken to court for allegedly demanding THB10 million from a foreign company in exchange for not pursuing a case of national park encroachment.

Four officials at the Nakhon Ratchasima Agricultural Land Reform Office (ARLO) have been transferred to inactive posts this week, following a controversy over the legitimacy of the status of a land plot on which the 88 Garmonte Resort in the northeastern province’s Wang Nam Kheow district was built.

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.

The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) has found that more than 270 rai (43 hectares) of forestry plantations have encroached on forestland in Mae Hong Son.

GOVERNMENT CHIEFS including Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha yesterday urged the public to look at the detail of proposals by the National Reform Steering Assembly (NRSA) for tackling forest encroachment, saying it has merely tried to correct wrongs and not legalise wrongdoings including by resort owners.

The Phaya Sua special taskforce of the National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department yesterday seized more than 400 rai of forestland in Chao Mai National Park’s Koh Kradan, which was found to have been encroached on by resort owners and inve

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Nong Bua Lamphu has become the first province in the Northeast to complete its goal of reclaiming a targeted amount forestland from encroaching investors.