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A harrowing odyssey
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 03/07/2022
» The three sisters knew they had to leave home. They were African wild dogs, elite predators of the sub-Saharan region and among the most endangered mammals on Earth. At 3 years old, they were in the prime of their vigour, ferocity and buoyant, pencil-limbed indifference to gravity.
Army trumpets border drugs suppression effort
News, Wassana Nanuam, Published on 15/10/2018
» A massive cache of narcotics, including more than 47 million speed pills, has been seized by army border surveillance units this year, said an army spokesman yesterday.
43 Cambodians held for log poaching
Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 27/01/2018
» NAKHON RATCHASIMA: Forty-three Cambodian men have been arrested and equipment used for cutting wood seized as part of a continuing crackdown on illegal logging in and around Thap Lan National Park.
Hospital director shot dead in Kanchanaburi
Piyarat Chongcharoen, Published on 23/01/2018
» KANCHANABURI: A forest ranger who admitted shooting dead the director of a hospital in Si Sawat district on Monday evening claimed he mistook the man for an illegal logger, but police are not convinced that is the case.
2nd Army joins illegal logging fight
News, Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 19/12/2017
» The 2nd Army Region will join forest rangers in stepping up a crackdown on illegal logging in Thap Lan National Park in Nakhon Ratchasima's Khon Buri district.
Log poachers caught by camera traps, detained
Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 13/12/2017
» NAKHON RATCHASIMA: Three Cambodian nationals have been detained for questioning on suspicion of illegal logging after being photographed by camera traps in Thap Lan National Park.
High-value wood seized in forest raid
News, Published on 18/12/2016
» A large haul of ta khien wood worth several million baht has been seized from a Narathiwat province forest during a raid on illegal logging rings.
Five Cambodian rosewood poachers arrested
Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 13/09/2016
» NAKHON RATCHASIMA -- Five Cambodian nationals have been arrested for illegal entry and poaching of protected phayung wood in Thap Lan National Park of Soeng Sang district.
B3m of poached rosewood seized at warehouse
Pongpat Wongyala, Published on 24/08/2016
» PATHUM THANI -- A special task force of the National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department on Wednesday raided a warehouse in Khlong Luang district and seized about three tonnes of protected phayung wood, or Siamese rosewood.
Loggers stealing century-old rosewood trees in Buri Ram
Published on 09/08/2016
» BURI RAM - About 100 people gathered in their district's last community forest on Tuesday, calling for more serious efforts to protect the few remaining rare and valuable mature Siamese rosewood trees from plundering log poachers.