ARMED with new evidence it says it collected in the past month, environmental activist group Greenpeace has embarked on a fresh campaign to stop what it claims is the smuggling of the tropical hardwood ramin from Sumatra to Singapore and Malaysia.
At a press conference on Wednesday, the group presented pictures it had taken of ramin logs piled atop boats and said that these were being shipped from locations in Riau to destinations like Batu Pahat in Malaysia, and Singapore.
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