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Govt redraw of forest borderlines on cards

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Natural Resources and Environment Minister Varawut Silpa-archa said he had no objection to the possibility of new forest borderlines being drawn up at Thap Lan National Park in Prachin Buri’s Nadi district if it is able to deal with issues of forest encroachment there.

“I’m confident the government won’t be disadvantaged by using any forest borderlines to solve this problem inside the park.

“We would accept any borderline so long as it ends the encroachment problem,” he said.

Mr Varawut on Wednesday answered questions from the media about the state’s attempts to re-demarcate the borderlines of Thap Lan National Park.

The matter was recently unveiled by whistleblower Chuvit Kamolvisit.

Mr Chuvit said he had…

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