Long Haul for Illegal Wood Seized on River
Forestry Administration officers said yesterday they were still struggling to remove a large cache of illegally harvested wood they seized along the Stung Chinit River in Kampong Thom province a week ago. Heng Kamich, head of the Forestry Administration in Santuk district, said the officers seized approximately 60 cubic meters of second-grade Chheu Tiel Bang wood, which was being floated down the river on Aug. 15, but only after the men operating the boat managed to escape. … But now that the seized wood was on land, he said that the Forestry Administration was having a hard time transporting it to provincial headquarters for storage. …
