Traditional rights to farm the land are being challenged by local authorities.
Conservation organizations and representatives from national parks are urging the government to voice their views on the anticipated eviction of land from Thap Lan National Park for farming, warning that there are only three weeks left to do so.
People can announce their positions on Friday by revealing whether they support or oppose the plan to alter the park’s boundaries. There are 265, 000 ray of land at play.
The area is in debate. Farmers assert rights, claiming that they had been using and living on the property for a long time prior to the park’s establishment in 1981.
Thap Lan sprawls over nearly 1.4 million ray, or 2, 235 square miles, of land in four towns in Nakhon Ratchasima and one in Prachin Buri. The contested property is located in the Nakhon Ratchasima regions of Soeng San and Wang Nam Khieo. Wang Nam Khieo is well-known for its casinos.
The Sueb Nakhasathien Foundation, which is asking for public input to save the garden area, released a statement on Tuesday detailing the steps needed for the online survey to find out whether they concur or disagree with the anticipated removal of 265, 000 acres of land from Thap Lan, using the hashtag #savethaplan.
It stated that “each opinion serves the purpose of the discussion of the issue.”
Popular hashtags on Thai social press include #savethapland and #savethaplannationalpark.
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The conflict was brought to light after the previous government, led by then-prime secretary Prayut Chan-o-cha, agreed in March of last year to allow farmers to receive payments under the Sor Por Kor name to address the issue between encroaching farmers and park authorities.
The One Map job, which may result in the loss of 265, 00 acres of the area for land use under the guidance of the Office of Agricultural Land Reform, is based on a chart at a level of 1: 4, 000.
But the method is not automated. It needs open sessions. The office for national parks manages public meetings and gathers feedback from online surveys.
Farmers then, outsiders after?
Sueb Nakhasathien warned on Monday that the plan might open the door for newcomers to seize control of the land and use it to construct more villas or other non-farm projects.
According to the base,” It is believed that contenders now own several plots of land in Wang Nam Khieo region.”
Chaiwat Limlikhitaksorn, chairman of the National Parks Office, is in favor of the foundation.  ,
He demanded the public’s support on July 1st, asking for their views, and urging people to intervene. He had before expressed concern that the playground is about to drop a sizable portion of its land, and he had also urged the general public to oppose the action.
Residents of Wang Nam Khieo district’s Wang Nam Khieo area have criticized Mr. Chaiwat and his division. They have urged justice and pointed out that their ancestors lived it long before it was designated a national park.
Somboon Singking, president of tambon Thai Samakkhi Administration Organisation, said Mr Chaiwat was giving one-sided knowledge which portrays the people as encroachers. ” The villagers do n’t feel comfortable about that”, he said.
Mr. Somboon and other villagers claimed that their parents have resided there since the late 1950s, when the troops began to cultivate the area in response to the former communist party’s growing influence in the northern region.
Kittipat Jainok, a son of Kittipat Jainok, claims that his father immigrated to the place in 1960 and that he is the fourth century to occupy the land.
In response to an interview, Pinkaew Hermkhunthod, a native of Ban Thai Sakkhi in the Wang Nam Khieo city of Nakhon Ratchasima, responds. ( Photo: Prasit Tangprasert )
Pinkaew Hermkhunthod claimed she had exhausted her 12-year legal battle with the area to establish the existence of her four-rai plantation before it was deemed to be within the park’s boundaries.
People may show they had lived that prior to the creation of a nationwide park, said Ms Pinkaew. In September, she will be up in court to defend her land.