Forestry officials seize timber worth RM3mil

You ‘wooden’ miss it: Datuk Dr Mohd Hizamri (left) together with a special forestry team inspecting the wood worth RM3mil at an illegal logging site. — Bernama

BERA: The Pahang Forestry Department has confiscated 2,400 pieces of valuable wood worth more than RM3mil believed to have been logged illegally from the Chini Forest Reserve and the Chini Forest Reserve Extension.

JPNP director Datuk Dr Mohd Hizamri Mohd Yasin said the seized logs were high-value meranti and keruing timber estimated to weigh 2,500 tonnes.