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Status of Tropical Forest Management 2011: Thailand Country Profile

Forestry in Thailand is constrained by several factors. Coincident with Thailand's rapid economic growth in the 1980s and 1990s, its forest resources became severely depleted. Logging in natural forests has been banned, but the forests remain under pressure from encroachment, illegal logging, fire and other agents. The Royal Forest Department, the government agency responsible for forests, has a long history of forest management and remains reasonably well resourced. Plantations, especially of rubberwood, and imports are now supplying the country's thriving downstream-processing timber industry. The huge importance of tourism to the Thai economy provides an excellent incentive for strong measures to improve forest protection.

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Field Value
Document type Profiles - Geographical areas and sites
Language of document
  • English
Short title (alternative/varying form of title) ITTO Technical Series No 38
Topics
  • Forest policy and administration
  • Logging and timber
Geographic area (spatial range)
  • Thailand
Copyright Yes
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Version / Edition 2011
License CC-BY-SA-4.0
Contact

International Tropical Timber Organization International Organizations Center, 5th Floor Pacifico-Yokohama 1-1-1, Minato-Mirai, Nishi-ku, Yokohama, 220-0012 Japan Tel : +81-45-223-1110 Fax : +81-45-223-1111 Email : itto@itto.int
Co-author (coorporate) Blaser, J., Sarre, A., Poore, D. & Johnson, S.
ISBN number 4-902045-78-8
Publication place Yokohama, Japan
Publisher International Tropical Timber Organization
Publication date 2011
Pagination 242-252
Keywords V4MF,FLEGT,Tropical Forest
Date uploaded July 12, 2018, 19:53 (UTC)
Date modified October 9, 2018, 13:27 (UTC)