FOREST MANAGERS OR DAMAGERS- EAST NEPAL

Office bearers of the proposed community forest in Sunsari District, east Nepal, have been accused of felling 900 cu ft of timber and in Dhading District, central Nepal. Security personnel arrested community forest chairman along with other accomplices for their involvement in timber smuggling. In western Nepal, to rehabilitate freed Kamaiyas in Bardiya District, District Forest Office is axing trees in more than half a dozen community forests.  Similarly, involvement of forest officers in rampant cutting of pine trees for sap extraction has been reported from the eight districts of far west Nepal.
8, 9, 11 June

The Kathmandu Post, bit.ly/NRMQBY