CHIANG MAI, 1 June 2015 – Hundreds of Chiang Mai provincial officials and public members today took part in a campaign to cut down rubber trees grown in a forest reserve in Doi Pha Hom Pok National Park, to clear ways for a reforestation project in the national reserves.
The felling of rubber trees is part of the government policy to increase forest areas in the province by 40% within 2015.
The activity was presided over by Deputy Governor of Chiang Mai Chana Paengpibun with participation of over five hundred officials from the 16th Watershed Conservation and Management Chiang Mai Bureau Office, forest rangers of Doi Pha Hom Pok National Park, military, police, community headmen and residents in nearby areas.
According to Director of the 16th Watershed Conservation and Management Chiang Mai Bureau Office Kamolchai Kotcha, today’s activity was a pilot project of the provincial plan to clear a total of 335 rai of rubber plantations to be finished by the end of December this year.
