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Nagaland Forest officials seize red sandalwood [1]

KOHIMA, Dec 24: Forest Department officials have seized huge quantity of red sandalwood from a truck bound for Manipur. Official sources here today said the Forest officials stopped a truck at the New Field Check Gate at Dimapur last night, which was coming from Kolkata, loaded with tonnes of barbed wire, and the red Sandalwood (Pterocorpus Santelinus) was hidden under the barbed wires.

Publication Date: 
25/12/2009
Sentinel (Guwahati) [2]
Tags:
Forests [3], Forest Resources [4], Sandalwood [5], Nagaland [6]
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