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FND urges the Government to consider the proposed moratorium on the forestry act within the reasonable time and put in place necessary steps to protect the poor which are likely to suffer as a result of this punitive law. Failure by the Government, will force FND to mobilize the poor to rise up and reject the implementation of this draconian and discriminatory law against the poor.

Forestry regulatory review published 2022-07-06

SURIN: Two villagers were arrested with a quantity of payung wood in their possession and charged with illegally felling protected trees in Sangkha district, police said.

Minister Hackett has today welcomed the publication of an independent report which reviews the Irish forestry system.

Six Vietnamese have been arrested after they were found with 400kg of old-growth Taiwan cypress believed to have been cut down in illegal logging operations in Nantou County, the National Police Agency (NPA) said yesterday. The 14 wood blocks of Taiwan cypress, an endemic protected species classified as “precious,” could likely sell for more than NT$1 million (US$33,770) on the black market, the agency said. The suspects, five men and one woman aged in their 20s and 30s, face charges of contravening the Forestry Act (森林法), NPA official Tsai Wen-cheng (蔡文正) said. “We believe t...