[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index ][Thread Index ]

Forestry chief cautious on companie



October 12, 1998 							
LOGGING

Forestry chief cautious on companies' import request
Wants to make sure it's not Thai wood

Chewin Sattha 
Mae Hong Son
The Forestry Department director-general still has doubts regarding four
Thai companies' request to import logs from Burma and is working to ensure
that Thai trees will not be felled and illegally included in the imports.
In response to a request from the firms - Thai Korean Veteran Welfare, B&F,
SA Pharmaceutical, and Phol Phana - which reportedly plan to import 120,000
cubic metres of logs from Burma through Mae Hong Son, Plodprasop Suraswadi
took a helicopter to survey their log yards here yesterday and found that
they were too deep in Thai territory.
"Log yards on Thai soil must be as close as possible to the border, not
further than five kilometres, while yards in Burma must be as deep as
possible on Burmese soil from the border," he said.
The survey found that the real locations of the yards were different from
those which the companies reported to the authorities to apply for approval
to import logs from Burma, he noted.
Moreover, each firm had not given the exact amount of logs it planned to
import. There was only a combined amount of the four companies.
"The department will not endorse imports until clear evidence is presented
to ensure that no Thai logs are included," he said.
Mr Plodprasop even proposed that Thai authorities examine logs in Burma
before they are imported. Burmese authorities would mark the logs and their
Thai counterparts would recheck the marks when the logs reach the Thai
border, he said.
He will discuss the proposal, which he said was a new idea to supervise log
imports, with the Foreign Ministry.
He also warned the companies not to pressure him into approving their
request quickly.
He said he still needed time to work out measures to ensure that the
imports would not open a chance for illegal logging groups to fell Thai
trees and claim them as imports.
People still remember the Salween log scandal in which Thai logs from the
Salween forest here were claimed as imports from Burma and the authorities
were still unable to find the culprits, he said.
Mr Plodprasop also warned subordinates not to get involved in illegal
logging or they would face harsh punishment.							 	Classifieds

Jobs
Property
Entertainment
Investment
Education
Travel
Sales

Learn English

Weekly 

Database
Horizons
NiteOwl
Student Weekly
Real Time

Special

We Care
Street Art

Back Issues

Last Month
Archive

Company Servcies
Subscriptions
Advertising

Annual Report

     								
© Copyright The Post Publishing Public Co., Ltd. 1998
Last Modified: Mon, Oct 12, 1998
For comments and letters to the editor see : notes
Comments to: Webmaster
Advertising enquiries to Internet Marketing