====== Chulabhorn Pattana 4 ======

Chulabhorn Pattana IV Village has also 
been established at Samed Juan degraded forest 
area adjacent to Chulabhorn Pattana III Village. 
The whole Samed Juan degraded forest area was 
donated for Chulabhorn Research Institute’s 
resettlement programme by the Royal Forest 
Department. However, The establishment of 
Chulabhorn Pattana IV Village was delayed until 
the completion of Chulabhorn 
Pattana III village for strategic reasons.\\

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Chulabhorn Pattana IV Village was settled in 
720 ha of land. Most of the area in totally degraded 
forest although Royal Forest Department declared 
it as National Reserve Forest and a reforestation 
programme was initiated. This programme was 
unsuccessful because the newly planted trees were 
left uncared and were also exposed to severe 
drought.\\

The survey of this area, conducted by a team 
of experts from Chulabhorn Research Institute, 
revealed that there is practically no virgin forest 
left in Samed Juan, In addition, one half of the total 
area was occupied by squatters who encroached 
the forest and replaced all the natural forest with 
rubber trees.\\

The special feature of Chulabhorn Pattana IV 
Village is that it is designed to be a Community 
Forest.\\

The project, therefore, aim at reforestation, 
rehabilitation of degraded forest area as well as 
community development.\\
 
Apart from the 4 projects, Chulabhorn 
Research Institute has expanded the result of the 
community development and sustainable natural 
resource management to other area by applying the 
method to suit each specific area. The president of 
Chulabhorn Research Institute has established 4 
projects in 4 provinces in the south and later 
expanded another 4 projects to the lower southern 
part of the country around the border between 
Thailand and Malaysia of which population are
majority Muslim. The project’s 
main objective is to create peaceful community 
and promote collaboration between groups of 
people (Muslim Thai and Buddhist Thai) to co-exist
together in peace as well as recovering the forest 
which is abundant of genetic and biological 
diversity, and to prevent forest encroachment in the 
future.

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