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Two bills in pipeline to address forest encroachments

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Two bills in pipeline to address forest encroachments

 

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The Ministry of Natural Resources and The Environment are drafting two bills which seek to empower the director-general of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation and the National Park Committee to allow people in 2,700 local communities encroaching on 5.9 million rai of conserved forests to stay on and utilize the land to make a living.

 

The new measure represents a far cry from the long-held policy to evict forest settlers living in conserved forest which has often led to protests by the encroachers – many of whom claimed they have been living in the land before they were declared national parks or forest reserves.

 

According to one of the two bills, the 2,700 forest communities will be divided into four groups. 

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/two-bills-in-pipeline-to-address-forest-encroachments/

 
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There's an old saying , give them an inch and they'll take a mile .

How many brown envelopes I wonder

27 minutes ago, holymoly said:

How many brown envelopes I wonder

You beat me to it - my first thoughts exactly.

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The laws are not the issue here. 

 

It's backing them up with proper policing and putting them in jail when they do it.

 

Thailand has the laws, they just don't have the people with the integrity and backbone to police them. Simple.

The more people living in the forest means less room for fat blokes with guns to blast everything in sight its a conundrum???? 

Well if they were there before it was declared a Nat.Park,i think that's fair.

Maybe they should place signs and fences around the perimeters of these lands?  Jail those that have taken bribes for fake paperwork 

21 hours ago, webfact said:

2,700 local communities encroaching on 5.9 million rai of conserved forests

These are whole populations, what will happen when they start breeding & need new land for their offspring who will say they were born on that land and have rights to stay ?? !!!!!

On 11/7/2018 at 9:45 PM, thequietman said:

The laws are not the issue here. 

 

It's backing them up with proper policing and putting them in jail when they do it.

 

Thailand has the laws, they just don't have the people with the integrity and backbone to police them. Simple.

But....they have a thriving envelope industry.

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