In the early 1990s, this program threatened to evict up to one million families (Hirsch, 2011). The Khor Jor Kor project is one of Thailand’s previous state forestry programs that triggered protests and conflict. The project, led by army generals, forestry officials and pulp and paper companies, aimed to reform land use in all of Thailand’s 1, 253 National Forest Reserves to make way for eucalyptus commercial plantations (Pye, 2005).