Police admit logging failure

The National Committee for Forest Crime Prevention has admitted that despite claims from a variety of high-level government officials that deforestation and illegal logging had been stopped entirely, the illegal timber trade was still ravaging the country’s forests. In June, Environment Minister Say Samal claimed the “mass logging which we have seen has completely ended,” due to the work of the National Anti-Deforestation Committee (NADC), which was tasked with investigating and shutting down timber warehouses in the country’s northern provinces. …

May Titthara
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