Eye-opening , in collaboration with Huai Nam Dang National Park, apprehended a community involved in the illegal logging of rosewood in the Srai Ngam forest space, Pai district, Mae Hong Son province. The operation, which resulted within the seizure of a big amount of proof, was carried out on September 12.
Attapol Charoenchansa, who is acting on behalf of the Director-General of the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation, disclosed that the special operation unit for national park and wildlife protection (Phaya Sue) teamed up with Huai Nam Dang National Park to inspect and arrest offenders involved in unlawful rosewood logging within the Sringam forest space. The space is inside the conservation forest of Mae Na Teung, Pai district, Mae Hong Son province.
The seizure of ten sheets of rosewood logs was as a result of a discovery made on September 12, by Huai Nam Dang National Park officials in Chiang Mai. They found proof of large-scale rosewood logging, including processing and smuggling operations within the area, reported KhaoSod.
Upon additional inspection, a single cab pickup truck with the license plate quantity ผห 8441 Chiang Mai was discovered parked on the scene. The vehicle was laden with eight sheets of processed rosewood logs. The method in which the logging was performed instructed it was an operation probably linked to an international rosewood logging community. This prompted an enlargement of the investigation.
The vehicle was owned by a person named Kasem (surname withheld), who resides at a hundred forty five, Moo 10, Mae Na Teung, Pai District, Mae Hong Son Province. Upon visiting the stated tackle, which is throughout the Huai Nam Dang National Park, officers in coordination with the village headman of Moo 10, Srai Ngam, inspected the premises and arrested Kasem.
Kasem confessed that the automobile was his and acknowledged smuggling the processed logs, intending to make use of them for house repairs. However, he denied any involvement with the logging on the scene of the crime. The officers then carried out a search of the home and found two massive processed rosewood logs. Kasem admitted that these had been from the crime scene.
The forestry officers seized a complete of ten sheets of rosewood logs, equivalent to 0.forty nine cubic metres. Kasem and the seized logs were taken to Pai Police Station for further legal action.
Attapol acknowledged that this operation was a result of ongoing investigations into teams involved in the illicit logging of economically priceless trees in northern Thailand’s conservation forests. He ordered additional monitoring and arrests and an growth of the operation to reach the financiers behind these logging operations. This will involve an aggressive method to suppress and proactively handle these groups, leading to legal motion towards them.
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