Two more resorts in Chiang Rai seized



CHIANG RAI: -- The military and local officials on Monday seized two resorts which allegedly encroached on national forest reserves in Chiang Rai province.

The seizure of Purita Resort and Mon Plabpla Resort in Tambon Pondo of Muang district of Chiang Rai was part of the ongoing crackdown on illegal resorts to reclaim forested land.

Monday’s operation was led by Maj-Gen Pornchai Duriyaphan, head of the provincial Internal Security Operations Command, and Mr Somsak Jiamsanguanwong, director of the Forest Resources Management Office.

Maj-Gen Pornchai said that authorities had identified altogether 11 resorts suspected to have encroached on national forest reserves and five of them have been seized. The five resort operators have shown land rights documents to the authorities but it was discovered that the documents were meant for villagers to use the land to make a living and did not allow to construct permanent structure such as resorts.

Purita and Mon Plabpla resort operators were unable to present any land right documents to prove that the two-rai land plot that each resort is located was legally acquired.

Since the start of the crackdown in less than two months, more than 1,000 rai of forested land have been reclaimed from encroachers, several of them resort operators.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/two-resorts-chiang-rai-seized/


-- Thai PBS 2014-07-28

Justice for the Jungle

I don't think I would like to be one of the people that have built on government land (in Mae Rim around here) all the while planning some day to receive a owner's book or land title.....like a homesteader.....

Looks like those days are gone.....

About bloody time!

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I don't think I would like to be one of the people that have built on government land (in Mae Rim around here) all the while planning some day to receive a owner's book or land title.....like a homesteader.....

Looks like those days are gone.....

Like i said back during the protests in Bangkok, the Military did a good job during the years i was stationed thruout Thailand.

Good to see....hope it continues with force in all the areas....phuket, khao yai and all over the place.

We have had a lot of helicopter activity out our way over last couple of months...we live on the boundary of a NP.

....good...get the unscrupulous blood suckers.....you have a long, long way to go yet.....but please don't stop.....

I don't think I would like to be one of the people that have built on government land (in Mae Rim around here) all the while planning some day to receive a owner's book or land title.....like a homesteader.....

Looks like those days are gone.....

Yeah, it sure does and right it is.

Also go after these illegal farmers in the mountains, who shave of more and more forest every year. Plenty going on like this. Go after the illegal garbage dumpers and other polluters while you are at it as well. Let them know this is untolerable.

Thailand is looking so much better now, way to go.

Great news but why is the government so slow in giving land deeds to the areas that do not have any? I do not understand why this is still not resolved in Thailand.

Great news but why is the government so slow in giving land deeds to the areas that do not have any? I do not understand why this is still not resolved in Thailand.

They are doing it. While cracking down on illegal logging on government land in some areas of the Province I live in (Sukhothai), they are also finally issuing deeds on government land granted to locals decades ago.

The OP mentions only one resort. That is the other resort?

The OP mentions only one resort. That is the other resort?

My house, that i have lived in for over 15 years is supposedly on Forestry land, as well as half my village. A few years ago, they started surveying, and issueng first time chanotes. They quit when they got to my property line, but said "coming soon", that was 3 years ago. My property was cleared of jungle 10 years before i bought it, and crops planted on it. My understanding of thai law, which is limited, is if you clear forestry land, plant crops,etc., and the forestry dept doesn't kick you off in a certain amount of time--it's yours??--like homesteading?

Great news but why is the government so slow in giving land deeds to the areas that do not have any? I do not understand why this is still not resolved in Thailand.

It's because the land is for the use of local people.

Once chanotes are issued outsiders come in and buy up everything, pushing the land prices way beyond the reach of the villagers.

IMHO, the issuing of chanotes anywhere outside large towns is wrong, and destructive to the local community.

In CR it's not only resorts that are the problem, many foreigners have been illegally buying and building homes on land intended solely for the use of local people, people who were born in the area. Let's see if the Junta really can be of some use to the local Thai community.

The OP mentions only one resort. That is the other resort?

My house, that i have lived in for over 15 years is supposedly on Forestry land, as well as half my village. A few years ago, they started surveying, and issueng first time chanotes. They quit when they got to my property line, but said "coming soon", that was 3 years ago. My property was cleared of jungle 10 years before i bought it, and crops planted on it. My understanding of thai law, which is limited, is if you clear forestry land, plant crops,etc., and the forestry dept doesn't kick you off in a certain amount of time--it's yours??--like homesteading?

Keep telling yourself that to make yourself feel better....

And the resorts ownerships were promptly transferred to a certain high ranking military leader as a reward for his fine work...