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https://scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/2138867/thai-monk-appeals-help-lone-fight-against-loggers
Asia/ Southeast Asia

Thai monk appeals for help in lone fight against loggers

Elderly monk claims his appeals to police weren’t properly followed up and the logging gang targetting the hundreds of trees surrounding his temple are now threatening him

Rosewood poaching is a recurrent crime, but the forest monk's 120-rai forest is special. Above, military and forestry officials show a rosewood smuggling bust in Trat province in January of last year. Photo Panumas Sanguanwong/Bangkok Post

By Pattanpong Sripiachai

A 76-year-old Buddhist monk, the abbot and only person living at a temple in a northeast Thai forest harbouring more than a thousand precious trees that is also part of a royal project to promote conservation, is calling for help in his fight with a transnational logging gang.