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Abstract
In Thailand, as in many other tropical countries, a substantial part of the population lives on recently deforested land. Between 1961 and 1985, at least a quarter of the country's land area of half a million square kilometers was deforested and put under cultivation. Approximately one-third of all Thai farmland, and as much as 15 percent of the Thai population, are found within what are technically classified as forest reserves.
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Larry Lohmann
Many thanks for information, analysis, and criticism to Orawan Koohacharoen, Witoon Permpongsacharoen, and an anonymous BCAS referee. For an article of mine on the same subject, see “Commercial Tree Plantations in Thailand: Deforestation by Any Other Name,” Ecologist, vol. 20, no. 1 (Jan.-Feb. 1990).
