News Forum - Forest ranger and 4 locals arrested for illegal logging in northeast Thailand

[Thaiger]

Yesterday, police arrested a forest ranger – whose duty is to protect the forest – and four of his friends for illegal logging in Khon Kaen province in northeast Thailand. The gang cut down protected and valuable species such as Siamese rosewood and Burmese padauk. The police’s Anti-Trafficking in Persons Division (ATPD) recently travelled to Khon Kaen’s Nong Ruea district to arrest some illegal immigrants working on a sugarcane plantation. Locals informed the ATPD officers that a group of men were spotted cutting down valuable trees in the forest. Locals said the group would ask the locals whether they could […]

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[Ramanathan.P]

Let us be realistic....everyone needs pocket money in difficult times. People only can source from where they can get some. They are not living in the city among people. They are in the jungle. So they only can depend on what is available there.