Legal Issues about the Control the Movement, Case of Root Balled Plants for Landscape

Abstract

The Forest areas are significantly reduced, as reported by the Forest Department in 2017.
An awareness of planting trees should be taking into consideration in order to increase the forest
area. There are currently only measures to prevent illegal logging, but for landscaping there is no
measure Landscaping is concerning moving trees from one place to another for beauty by using
small, medium and large trees. Generally, such trees are bought from a tree seller who sell digging
trees. However, there is always no evidence to prove that the trees used in such works come
from a tree seller who plant tress for selling. It is possible that such trees come farming source,
including national park. At the same time, some of the trees were originally banned. However,
nowadays people are allowed to grow their own crops. As a result, it is more difficult to monitor
the source of the tree. More importantly, the tree transporting in landscaping always comes with
living tree with leaves, stems and roots. Moving such trees to other places accordingly has not
been strictly monitored by government officials. It must be clearly and concisely verified by the
government. It is noted in the legal issue that the law which governs the movement of trees for
landscaping should be considered. In other countries such as Singapore, where the strict control
of tree movement is enforced. Unlike Thailand, where there is no control. So the reduced forest
area is caused by deforestation by digging trees out of the forest for use in landscaping.