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REPORT: Changes give forest protection centre more authority, ease in identifying encroachers

January 20, 2019

CHEEWAPAP Cheewatham recently stepped down as leader of Thailand’s most powerful forest suppression taskforce, Phaya Prai, after nearly five years at the helm.

Task force cracks down on gang collecting beach entrance fees

November 18, 2018

A joint force from the Forest Protecting Operation Centre (FPOC) and the police Immigration Division this week raided a gang that had allegedly been collecting fees from foreign tourists at Phuket’s famed Freedom beach.

Phayak Prai taskforce seizes hardwood planks, logs in Udon Thani raid

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 02, 2018

A joint taskforce suppressing forest crimes, led by the Forest Protecting Operation Centre (FPOC), late Monday night seized more than 300 planks of hardwood (pratu) as well as nearly 20 logs from a wood-processing factory in Udon Thani province.

Raid on forest encroachers finds land for sale

TUESDAY, MAY 29, 2018

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.

Task force raids Petchabun resorts

FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2018

An integrated task force under the leadership of the Royal Forestry Department to suppress encroachment upon forest reserves and land authorised for special settlements in Petchabun’s popular resort town of Khao Kho has raided 15 more resorts as part of a two-week operation.

SPECIAL REPORT: Appropriation denuding Doi Suthep

SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 2018

EXPERT WARNS UNPREDICTABLE CONSEQUENCES OF CONTINUED DEGRADATION

Piers for Similan-bound boats encroach on forest reserves, public water

SATURDAY, MARCH 03, 2018

FOUR PIERS allegedly constructed to specially transport Chinese tourists to popular islands in Phang-nga province, including the famed Similan, have been found to be encroaching upon the forest reserve of Khlong Thung Maprao.

Taskforces arrest Koh Pha-ngan resort, restaurant owners in ongoing joint operation to tackle fores

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 06, 2018

Resorts and restaurants in at least seven locations scattered around the popular tourist island of Koh Pha-ngan in Surat Thani province were found to have encroached upon forest reserves and Thansadet National Park, while 12 others have land documents suspected by the authorities of being forgeries.

Anti-poaching squad arrests coordinator of Phayung logging gang

SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 2018

After a months long cat-and-mouse chase, forest crime suppression officials from the Forest Protecting Operation Centre (FPOC) have nabbed what they believe to be the master-mind or a key coordinator of the Phayung logging gang.

Rosewood smuggling case implicates resort owned by former senior police officer

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 02, 2017

As the investigation into smuggled rosewood expands, Forest Protecting Operation Centre (FPOC) law enforcement officials have found that a resort in a popular tourist attraction in the Wang Nam Khiao of in Nakhon Ratchasima province is involved.

Forest crime suppression forces determined to nab transnational Siamese rosewood logging gang

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2017

Integrated forces for suppressing forest crime under the Forest Protecting Operation Centre have expanded an investigation in a bid to nab a transnational Phayung (Siamese rosewood) logging gang, believed to be the largest of its kind.

Forest encroachers trying ‘new tricks’

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2017

LAW REFORM, PUBLIC PARTICIPATION REQUIRED TO ENSURE PRESERVATION OF FOREST LANDS, SAYS FORESTRY CHIEF

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