Logs worth B33m found in abandoned warehouse

Officials from the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation have found illegal logs of wood worth about 33 million baht in a warehouse in Phetchabun.

Panatchakorn Potibandit, director of the preventive and suppression strategy unit of the Forest Protection and Fire Control Office, yesterday said rangers from a special unit had raided a warehouse and found 30 Narra logs.

Nine were smuggled from the forest reserve of Phu Soi Dao National Park in Uttaradit province. Officials also found 50 pieces of Burmese rosewood timber, 51 Burmese rosewood…