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Forest Department seizes smuggled logs [1]

The Forest Department, in a major move against the illegal trade of timber, seized two salis of logs while they were being smuggled from Arunachal Pradesh through the waterway of the Brahmaputra at Balijan in Tinsukia today. A haul of three hundred logs was made during the operation, which was conducted jointly by forest officials and personnel from the forest ranges of Dibrugarh, Doomdooma and Dibru Saikhowa.

Publication Date: 
22/05/2008
Sentinel (Guwahati) [2]
Tags:
Forest Resources [3], Timber Smuggling [4], Arunachal [5], Assam [6], Tinsukia (D) [7]
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[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/sentinel-guwahati
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/forest-resources
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/timber-smuggling
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/arunachal
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/assam
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/tinsukia-d