Bangkok Post: The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has set an ambitious plan to increase forest coverage to 40% of the country’s area within eight years. Several forest plantation projects will be launched soon to help the ministry achieve the goal, including a tree-for-debt-relief project, said the ministry’s permanent secretary Saksit Tridech. “We would like to reach the 40% target by 2017 which means we need to have 128 million rai,” he said during an activity to mark …