"illegal logging"

With Potentially high benefits at stake, Thailand is moving toward allowing the harvesting of some tree species, which is currently banned unless special permission is obtained.

BY KAENG E-KHIEW Waterfall in northeastern Buntrik-Yod Mon Wildlife Sanctuary a mature male elephant lay dead, with traces of a highly volatile bullet left in its mouth and its bud. Another AK47 bullet was found buried in its ribs.

Authorities seized a large amount of hardwood logs from a shack built in a forest conservation area in Loei’s Dan Sai district during an inspection on Tuesday and Wednesday, said Colonel Pongphetch Ketsupa of the Internal Security Operations Command’s Loei branch on Thursday.

After a months long cat-and-mouse chase, forest crime suppression officials from the Forest Protecting Operation Centre (FPOC) have nabbed what they believe to be the master-mind or a key coordinator of the Phayung logging gang.

Three men were arrested in Amnat Charoen province on Sunday for alleged illegal logging.

Nan provincial Governor Paisal Wimonrat has dispatched 200 police and Army officers as well as administrative officials to search five villages in tambon Yab Hua Na of Nan’s Wiang Sa district on Wednesday morning on suspicion of illegal logging.