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Wed, 20 Feb 2019 01:00
Forest Act to be amended to encourage felling and growing of rare trees
LANDOWNERS will be able to cut down up to 171 “reserved” and “rare” timber species growing on their properties without having to seek permission from the authorities, once an amendment to the Forest Act is published in the Royal Gazette in the next two months.
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Mon, 21 Jan 2019 01:00
REPORT: Changes give forest protection centre more authority, ease in identifying encroachers
CHEEWAPAP Cheewatham recently stepped down as leader of Thailand’s most powerful forest suppression taskforce, Phaya Prai, after nearly five years at the helm.
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Wed, 09 Jan 2019 16:00
Stung by evidence of internal graft, Forest Department launches purge
Seeking to purge all the “bad apples”, the Royal Forest Department (RFD) is trying to determine whether six of its officials recently sacked for selling protected phayung (Siamese rosewood) to a Chinese investor had links to a transnational logging and smuggling gang and whether any other officials were involved.
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Sat, 29 Dec 2018 01:00
SPECIAL REPORT: New forest policy over conflicting claims needs widening public participation
Somsak Saelao’s community of Pang Kob is isolated, situated close to the top of the Khun Nan mountain, and follows the traditional way of life of the Hmong hilltribe.
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Mon, 17 Dec 2018 01:00
Report: Forest governance needed to ensure good cuts of greenhouse gases and healthy forests, says experts
SOMSAK SAE-LAO, an assistant village chief in the small Nan community of Pang Kob, still has no idea whether his villagers could be subject to any benefits for helping protect surrounding forest under a global scheme known as REDD+, if implemented here.
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Mon, 03 Dec 2018 01:00
New RFD chief hits out over ‘slanderous’ bribery accusations
THE ROYAL Forestry Department is going after some people who had released three letters accusing its former deputy director-general of being involved in bribery in a high-profile logging case for his promotion to the position of director-general.
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Mon, 15 Oct 2018 16:46
RFD fires Kamphaeng Phet forest patrol officer after teak log falls from his pickup during chase
The Royal Forestry Department (RFD) has sacked another forest patrol officer, this time in Kamphaeng Phet province, after a teak log was found to have fallen from a pickup truck allegedly driven by him during a chase.
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Wed, 05 Sep 2018 01:00
CPK International faces RFD lawsuit for encroachment
CPK INTERNATIONAL, on whose board Italian-Thai Development president Premchai Karnasuta sits as a director, has been threatened with a civil lawsuit by the Royal Forestry Department.
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Sat, 04 Aug 2018 01:00
SPECIAL REPORT: Forest rangers risk lives for a pittance
Park defenders deserve better pay and welfare benefits for policing country’s resources, say experts
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Sun, 29 Oct 2017 01:00
Forest encroachers trying ‘new tricks’
LAW REFORM, PUBLIC PARTICIPATION REQUIRED TO ENSURE PRESERVATION OF FOREST LANDS, SAYS FORESTRY CHIEF
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Tue, 04 Jul 2017 18:37
Zipline business under investigation for forest encroachment
PHUKET: A team of officials from the Royal Forestry Department (RFD) on Monday visited four ziplining facilities in Phuket and uncovered one allegedly guilty of forest encroachment.
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Sun, 21 May 2017 01:00
Task forces fight sophisticated forest crimes
The government has initiated a new forest-protection operations centre to crack down on encroachment and exploitation. New director Athapol Charoenshunsa, who heads the Royal Forestry Department (RFD)’s Forest Protection and Fire Control Bureau, tells The Sunday Nation’s Piyaporn Wongruang why the new agency is desperately needed.
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Fri, 19 May 2017 18:12
New center to step up suppression exploitation of state forests
A new forest protection operation center has been established to pull together all relevant agencies and laws to suppress influential figures who have exploited state forests and resources.
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Sat, 06 May 2017 01:00
Is humanity on the road to serfdom?
In 1949 George Orwell was inspired to write his satire “1984”. Having witnessed and experienced Nazi and Communist fascism he projected fascism to its ultimate totalitarian conclusion.
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Sun, 23 Oct 2016 01:00
Community forest wins award
The Royal Forest Department (RFD), in partnership with Ratchaburi Electricity Generating Holding, has announced that the Baan Pu Namron community forest in Suphan Buri province.
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