Officials Again Seize Timber In Kratie Without Any Arrests
For the second time in a month, Forestry Administration officials in Kratie province’s Snuol district have found hundreds of cubic meters of first-grade wood that had been smuggled to a site near the tributary of the Prek Pao river, officials said yesterday. As in previous wood discoveries, no loggers were caught. Tep Kunpidor, chief of the Forestry Administration’s Khyoem commune office, said a joint operation by forestry officials and Kratie military police last weekend located 106 logs of first-grade timber, or about 200 cubic meters, hidden in the forest about 3 km from a river tributary, which illegal loggers frequently use to move timber from the area. “It’s the second time that our forces confiscated first-grade logs in Kratie’s Snuol district. Last month we confiscated 625.5 cubic meters,” Mr. Kundipor said. …
