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Chapters Community members map their forests in western Thailand

Introduction

  1. Foreword
  2. Message from the Executive Director
  3. The year that was
  4. Working towards impact

Ensuring forest landscapes provide climate solutions

  1. Eight forests, six countries and a shared framework for learning
  2. New terms for community forestry in Riau, Indonesia
  3. Community forest groups in Nepal invest in recharge ponds
  4. Moving beyond monoculture in Viet Nam’s coffee farms

Securing rights and inclusive governance

  1. Making forest tenure processes work for women
  2. Planning for forests through participation
  3. Strengthening inclusive governance in Chitwan’s buffer zones

Supporting growth of forest landscape-related businesses

  1. Building a mangrove business around mud crabs
  2. From forest management to forest income
  3. Building stronger coffee businesses in Viet Nam’s Central Highlands

Securing finance for sustainable forest landscapes

  1. Restoring watersheds, one tree at a time

Generating evidence for influence

  1. Chiang Mai’s community forests take ownership of biodiversity data
  2. Building a regional research community
  3. From development site to urban conservation area
  4. Mapping oil palm from the ground up
  5. Thai community forests earn Green Globe recognition

Engaging the public on forest landscape issues

  1. A new generation of forest guardians
  2. Community members map their forests in western Thailand
  3. Peering into curtained forests
  1. Board of Trustees
  2. Our project donors, partners and networks
Community members stand in Ratchaburi Community Forest, western Thailand.
Engaging the public on forest landscape issues

Community members map their forests in western Thailand

A community forest leader expanded the use of the mapping tool ThaiCFNet, helping bring 200 forests into view

Thailand has nearly 12,000 legally recognized community forests, yet information about where they are, how they are managed and what they produce has often been difficult to access. Through ThaiCFNet, RECOFTC is helping communities document and share this information themselves.

Learning the platform

Since 2018, our Citizens’ Forest Network (CF-NET) has supported communities to develop digital profiles of their forests through ThaiCFNet. By 2022, members of 432 community forests across 38 provinces had updated information on their forest management plans, restoration activities and forest resources. 

Among them was Wisa Changphadisnpha, secretary general of the Western Citizen Forestry Confederation Thailand. After joining our training on ThaiCFNet in 2022, she decided to expand the work across her own network.

Two men stand beside a tree in Ratchaburi Community Forest, western Thailand.

Building a wider network

Changphadisnpha secured funding from WWF-Thailand to train 15 community forest representatives from six provinces in western Thailand – Ratchaburi, Phetchaburi, Suphan Buri, Kanchanaburi, Uthai Thani and Prachuap Khiri Khan. In September 2025, RECOFTC joined the workshop as a technical trainer while participants learned how to develop and maintain digital forest profiles. 

“Community forest leaders and representatives play a key role in keeping our region's forest data up to date,” explains Changphadisnpha. “ThaiCFNet is an efficient platform to organize our forest data and more confidently communicate our work in forest management.”

Data has been entered or updated for 200 community forests across the network. By equipping community leaders to manage and share their own information, ThaiCFNet is helping make community forests more visible to policymakers, development partners and other communities.

People on a field visit in Thailand.
RECOFTC’s work is made possible with the support of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and the Government of Sweden.