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This is the park where the rangers burned down a Karen settlement a while back and where a ranger had arrested a Karen resident for possessing wild honey who then went missing (a month before a trial into the burning where he was due to give evidence) and has never been found.
The Karen that are there now had been living in Kaeng Krachan long before it was even a national park (the elderly residents anyway), so I sort of sympathise. Has the Thai Government not offered them any money to relocate yet? Money usually works?
You have to say that the national park hasn't handled the Karen issue well in this park and if they hadn't been so 'hands on' they might have a better relationship with the Karen and initiatives like this might have more chance of success. They've shot themselves in the foot.
IUCN notes in précis that the statement of 28th February
2019 raised a number of serious human rights issues.
Information received by the Special Procedures Branch
of UNOHCHR references “alleged attacks and renewed
harassment of the indigenous Karen peoples in KKFC,
by [national park officials].” These allegations mention
specifically the reactivation of the nomination
specifically highlighting “lack of consultation with
affected indigenous peoples, and the failure to seek
their free, prior and informed consent.” It further notes
that concerns have been raised over “how UNESCO
World Heritage status, if awarded, may impact on the
Karen communities’ land rights and livelihoods”.
And the report doesn't just criticise the Karen problem but the boundaries of the park itself. There are too many settlements and farms cutting into the natural boundary of the park, particularly south of Kaeng Krachan and into Kui Buri. You can see it just by looking at the map. Yes there are wildlife corridors to most areas, just about, but it's not ideal.
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