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โครงการรวบรวมและจัดทําวารสารอิเล็กทรอนิกส์ มหาวิทยาลัยเกษตรศาสตร์
Thai J. For. 34 (1) : 101-111 (2015) วารสารวนศาสตร 34 (1) : 101-111 (2558)
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นิพนธ์ต้นฉบับ

การมีส่วนร่วมของประชาชนในการอนุรักษ์ป่าชายเลน
ของชุมชนต�าบลเขาถ่าน อ�าเภอท่าฉาง จังหวัดสุราษฎร์ธานี

People Participation in Mangrove Forest Conservation of Kho Than
Sub-district Community, Tha Chang District, Surat Thani Province

สันติ สุขสอาด Santi Suksard
รัชดา ศรีศักดิ์บางเตย * Ratchada Srisakbangtoei *

คณะวนศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยเกษตรศาสตร์ จตุจักร กรุงเทพฯ 10900
Faculty of Forestry, Kasetsart University, Chatuchak, Bangkok 10900, Thailand
*Corresponding Author, E-mail: ratchada.sri@hotmail.com

รับต้นฉบับ 2 พฤษภาคม 2557 รับลงพิมพ์ 5 มิถุนายน 2557

ABSTRACT

The objectives of the study were to determine the socio-economic condition, general
information, participation level and factors affecting people participation in mangrove forest
conservation, of Kho Than sub-district community, Tha Chang district, Surat Thani province.
Data was collected by using the designed questionnaires interview 258 respondents. The data
were ananlyzed and representing in term of the statistical values namely frequency, percentage,
mean, minimum, maximum and testing the setting hypothesis by employing t-test and F-test with
the given significance level of 0.05.
The results indicated that the most (53.49 %) of respondents were male with an average
age of 45.24 years and had graduated at the primary school (35.27 %). Most respondents (72.09 %)

had been born in the present area and their average resettled period was 36.84 years. The average
number of household member was 4.60. Agriculture was their main occupation (42.64 %) as well
as their subsidiary occupation (74.03 %). Their average size of land holding was 14.10 rais and
utilized mangrove forest (50 %). Their average annual households total income, income from
magrove forest utilization and expenditure were 244,798.45, 27,044.57 and 151,298.45 baht,
respectively. Most respondents (68.60 %) were social group member and received information
about mangrove forest conservation (98.45 %). Most of them (77.91 %) had never attended any
training couse about mangrove forest conservation. However they had knowledge and participation

in mangrove forest conservation at a high (77.13 %) and moderate level (X = 3.18), respectively.
Factors affecting the participation in mangrove forest conservation were age, educational level,
resettlement period, number of household members, subsidiary occupation, income from mangrove