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January 11, 2021 Audit Service Sierra Leone; last Thursday 7 th January, engaged the media on the 2019 Audit Report where they explained the processes used in auditing the export of timber, the missing 47 laptops at NaCOVERC, the 30 vehicles bought by NaCOVERC, among a host of other issues.  Addressing journalists at the Sierra Association of Journalists Conference Hall on Campbell Street, Auditor General, Lara Taylor-Pearce said during their recent consultation on their strategic plan there were suggestions made regarding the Audit Service Sierra Leone public engagement and as it starts a n...

Illegal timber seized in Kanchanaburi published : 10 Jan 2021 at 10:46 20 Park rangers move illegal tember seized from a house in Si Sawat district in Kanchanaburi to the Dan Mae Chaleap police station on Saturday. (Photo by Piyarat Chongcharoen) KANCHANABURI: Officials from the Srinakarin Dam National Park on Saturday seized a quantity of illegal timber from a house in Si Sawat district. Thiti Somphi, chief of the Srinakarin Dam National Park, said he led a team of officials to the house in a forest near Nam Phu village in tambon Khao Cho...

Premium Content Subscriber only A popular Mackay forest and 4WD track has closed to the public as ex-tropical cyclone Imogen continues to deliver heavy rain and flooding. A HQPlantations' announcement stated Cathu State Forest would be shut until at least Thursday, January 14 when staff could assess risks and road conditions. The business has also closed its plantations on the Hinchinbrook Coast, specifically around Ingham and Cardwell. "HQPlantations is appealing to the public to respect these closures so that safe and responsible access to the plantations can be restored as soon as poss...

Clare FM 15th December 2020 A Burren farmer committed “a heinously illegal act” when felling trees on his lands without a licence. That is according to Judge Patrick Durcan who fined David McMahon €600 after convicting the father of two for removing trees without a licence at Conga, Ruan, Co Clare between September 1st 2018 and November 30th 2018. Counsel for the Minister for Agriculture, Thomas Wallace O’Donnell BL told the court that the Dept’s own estimate is that 40,000 trees were felled. CONTINUE READING BELOW Mr O’Donnell told the court: “The Department ...

A Burren farmer was fined for felling trees on his lands without a licence, despite the court hearing the farmer “would consider some growth to be scrub as opposed to a tree". Judge Patrick Durcan convicted farmer David McMahon for removing the trees without a license at Conga, Ruan, Co Clare between September 1st 2018 and November 30th 2018 and fined him €600. It is understood that the case is the first such conviction under the Forestry Act 2014. Counsel for the Minister for Agriculture, Thomas Wallace O’Donnell BL told the court that the Dept’s own estimate is that 40,000 trees wer...