Arrested 5 people 'poisoning' pine forest with herbicide
Five suspects aged 27-39 killed 1,159 pine trees by drilling holes and pouring herbicide into the trunks.
On October 29, Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Duc Thuy - Head of Dak Song District Police (Dak Nong Province) said that this agency has temporarily detained Huynh Binh, Nguyen Dinh Than, Phan Cong Dung, Le Manh Hung and Phan Van Dong (all in Nam N'jang Commune, Dak Song District) to investigate the act of ""Deforestation".
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Pine forests along National Highway 14, Dak Song district were vandalized in early October. Photo:Ngoc Oanh. |
In July, with the aim of occupying land, this group went to sub-area 1664 of the National Highway 14 landscape protection forest in Nam N'jang commune, drilled holes in pine tree trunks, then poured herbicide, killing a total of 487 30-year-old pine trees.
In addition, 672 pine trees in sub-area 1699 of the National Highway 14 landscape protection forest in Truong Xuan commune were also poisoned by the suspects using similar methods.
Also, in Dak G'long district this year, there have been 14 cases of pine forest destruction, with more than 2,100 trees being drilled and chemically treated.
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