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SPECIAL REPORT: Blood-hued Phayung almost gone as corrupt officials pave way for logging

December 21, 2018

BY KAENG E-KHIEW Waterfall in northeastern Buntrik-Yod Mon Wildlife Sanctuary a mature male elephant lay dead, with traces of a highly volatile bullet left in its mouth and its bud. Another AK47 bullet was found buried in its ribs.

Suspected Illegal loggers arrested after raid on warehouse

April 26, 2018

A joint task force of forest crime suppression and police raided a warehouse in the Lat Krabang area on Wednesday night, where illegal logs of Phayung wood worth an estimated Bt6 million were found.

Anti-poaching squad arrests coordinator of Phayung logging gang

SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 2018

After a months long cat-and-mouse chase, forest crime suppression officials from the Forest Protecting Operation Centre (FPOC) have nabbed what they believe to be the master-mind or a key coordinator of the Phayung logging gang.

Rosewood smuggling case implicates resort owned by former senior police officer

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 02, 2017

As the investigation into smuggled rosewood expands, Forest Protecting Operation Centre (FPOC) law enforcement officials have found that a resort in a popular tourist attraction in the Wang Nam Khiao of in Nakhon Ratchasima province is involved.

Forest crime suppression forces determined to nab transnational Siamese rosewood logging gang

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2017

Integrated forces for suppressing forest crime under the Forest Protecting Operation Centre have expanded an investigation in a bid to nab a transnational Phayung (Siamese rosewood) logging gang, believed to be the largest of its kind.

Mekong meeting discusses illegal logging in Thai World Heritage forest complex

THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 2017

Suppression of illegal logging and trade of phayung wood (Siamese Rosewood) as well as ways to improve transborder legal enforcement are among the issues being discussed during a two-day conference of the Mekong countries and their counterpart, China.