"...if you successfully clear a patch of forest without getting caught, and are eventually able to demonstrate borders of some kind with either a fence or brush cutting, you can become the owner of the land and get a soft title from the government."
That is absolutely insane. 😮 I imagine, however, that similar actions were attempted on the wild, untamed frontiers of many countries around the world over human history. 😔
In a way it's a kind of homesteading law like Alaska has, but it is totally illegal to award land like this within a national park, and even more so within a wildlife sanctuary inside the national park. The law and reality are two different things, but it's almost impossible to become the owner of a forest and take care of that forest. If you want to own a forest, you have to secretly destroy it, fence it off, then get a title and regrow the forest, absolutely insane.