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SPECIAL REPORT: EU-driven timber certification raises hopes for sustain forest management and forest

March 01, 2019

With Potentially high benefits at stake, Thailand is moving toward allowing the harvesting of some tree species, which is currently banned unless special permission is obtained.

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.

Illegal logging operation raided in Loei but no arrests made

THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2018

Authorities seized a large amount of hardwood logs from a shack built in a forest conservation area in Loei’s Dan Sai district during an inspection on Tuesday and Wednesday, said Colonel Pongphetch Ketsupa of the Internal Security Operations Command’s Loei branch on Thursday.

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.

Three arrested for alleged illegal logging

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2017

Three men were arrested in Amnat Charoen province on Sunday for alleged illegal logging.

Nan raid targets illegal logging, arrests two

WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 2017

Nan provincial Governor Paisal Wimonrat has dispatched 200 police and Army officers as well as administrative officials to search five villages in tambon Yab Hua Na of Nan’s Wiang Sa district on Wednesday morning on suspicion of illegal logging.