Representatives of forest dwellers nationwide have demanded that Chart Thai Party leader Banharn Silpa-archa halt a party plan to table the Community Forest Bill in the June 22 cabinet meeting because it does not represent community views. They said the essence of the bill, dubbed the Chart Thai version, has been distorted in favour of the Government of Thailand and said it denied communities their basic rights to co-manage natural resources with the state under the new constitution. A two-day meeting between seven leading local and Bangkok-based conservation groups and villagers in Chiang Mai have found three "mistakes" that would speed up forest destruction to the point of no return if the bill was passed, said Anand Karnchanaphan, a social studies lecturer at Chiang Mai University.