Conflict is looming at Dong Lan forest reserve after encroachers said yesterday they would defy a government order to move out by Sunday. Officials, with orders to use non-violent means, are set to move in to evict 600 families from the reserve. Mr Manoch said a campaign was being launched to make the encroachers aware of the need to save the reserve, a watershed in the Northeast. To pressure the encroachers, he said, officials deployed at the reserve had barred outsiders while allowing those already in to leave if they so wish.