Thai Forestry Department announces new measures against deforestation

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Thai Forestry Department announces new measures against deforestation
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BANGKOK, July 11 -- Thailand’s Forestry Department has announced plans to revive forests nationwide, while also reducing the rate of deforestation.

Forestry Department Dir-Gen Theerapat Prayurasiddhi on Thursday met with top forestry officials nationwide to explain his policy, stressing the lowering of deforestation and illegal forest encroachment in order to protect the forests' fertility.

Mr Theerapat said that conflicts between relevant agencies should be minimised to improve cooperation among agencies, increase forestry economy areas, and achieving balance within nature to improve the lives of the people.

The director-general said that his department would implement strategies to promote sustainable forest resources management, including urgent revitalisation of the forest to increase working efficiency.

Mr Theerapat said forest protection officials will meet tomorrow to be briefed on implementing the new measures.

He will also meet with the National Park and Wildlife Conservation Department on shifting workforce to the Forestry Department to raise forest protection capacity, as there 1,221 national forests under the Forestry Department's responsibility. (MCOT online news)


-- TNA 2014-07-11

[canuckamuck]

They have got to try at least. There is hardly any natural forest where I live, three years ago there was a lot more. Every year more and hills laid bare in clear sight of the highway. I can't imagine what their policy has been up to this point.

[worgeordie]

It would be a vast improvement if they could actually catch

the illegal loggers cutting the forest down,instead of what

seems to be the norm,finding planks,logs and other dressed

timber,on the way to be sold or in some Hi-So s compound .

regards Worgeordie, PS wonder what happens to all this

timber they find ?

[bangrak]

Wouldn't it be good when the existing regulations would already be enforced, truly, seriously, without years of 'delay'? And what about raising the penalties, fines AND emprisonment, to deterring levels, instead of the present ridiculous ones? In the EU country I come from, the penalties are, very, high, jail included, for anyone caught for felling trees or stealing wood in forests, or for being 'behind' such offence, whoever that might be...