The Phaya Sue Task Force, in collaboration with Huai Nam Dang National Park, apprehended a community involved within the unlawful logging of rosewood within the Srai Ngam forest space, Pai district, Mae Hong Son province. The operation, which resulted within the seizure of a big amount of evidence, was performed on September 12.
Attapol Charoenchansa, who is performing 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 safety (Phaya Sue) teamed up with Huai Nam Dang National Park to inspect and arrest offenders concerned in illegal rosewood logging within the Sringam forest space. The area is throughout the conservation forest of Mae Na Teung, Pai district, Mae Hong Son province.
The seizure of ten sheets of rosewood logs was as a end 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 space, reported KhaoSod.
Upon additional inspection, a single cab pickup truck with the license plate quantity ผห 8441 Chiang Mai was discovered parked at the scene. The car was laden with eight sheets of processed rosewood logs. The manner by which the logging was performed instructed it was an operation possibly linked to a world rosewood logging network. This prompted an enlargement of the investigation.
The automobile was owned by a man named Kasem (surname withheld), who resides at one hundred forty five, Moo 10, Mae Na Teung, Pai District, Mae Hong Son Province. Upon visiting Unbelievable said address, 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 vehicle was his and acknowledged smuggling the processed logs, intending to make use of them for home repairs. However, he denied any involvement with the logging on the scene of the crime. The officers then carried out a search of the house and found two giant processed rosewood logs. Kasem admitted that these have been from the crime scene.
The forestry officers seized a total of ten sheets of rosewood logs, equal to 0.49 cubic metres. Kasem and the seized logs had been taken to Pai Police Station for further legal motion.
Attapol acknowledged that this operation was a results of ongoing investigations into teams involved within the illicit logging of economically valuable bushes in northern Thailand’s conservation forests. He ordered further monitoring and arrests and an expansion of the operation to achieve the financiers behind these logging operations. This will contain an aggressive strategy to suppress and proactively handle these groups, resulting in legal action against them.
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