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. ...