Teak trees to be cut for the building of new parliament complex
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THE FOREST Industry Organisation (FIO) will push ahead with cutting down decades-old teak trees for the construction of the new Parliament complex, though responding to Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha’s order for the FIO to spare magnificent specimens in
“There are many forest plantations in the North. We instead can turn to them to respond to the order for 5,000 teak logs for the new Parliament complex,” FIO director Pipat Chaninthayutthawong said Wednesday.
The contractor wants trunks that are larger than eight inches in diameter.
“That means the teak logs have to be 25 to 30 years old and have a circumference of more than 120 centimetres,” he said.
