File photo : Agriculture Minister Thammanat Prompao inspects maps of Khao Yai National Park recently.
The ministries of Agriculture and the Natural Resources and Environment appear to be at the loggerheads over land ownership claims in Khao Yai National Park in Nakhon Ratchasima province.
On Tuesday this week, Chaiwat Limlikhitaksorn, chief of the Office of National Parks at the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation, went to Khao Yai National Park to investigate alleged encroachment, claiming the plot of land in question is part of the land reform area for the issuance of land title deeds.
Chaiwat reportedly ordered the demarcation marking removed and filed land encroachment complaint at the Mu See police station.
About 416 hectares of land in Khao Yai National Park are being claimed as part of the land reform area by the Land Reform Office in Nakhon…
