AMURU. The environmental police protection unit and National Forestry Authority (NFA) stormed an illegal charcoal dealer’s and logger’s camp in Pupwonya parish, Attiak Sub County Amuru district on Friday evening.
They destroyed hundreds of logs, bags of charcoal and makeshift structures belonging to the dealers as well as destroyed kilns in Okidi North Parish.
The team impounded over seven hundred bags of charcoal from the site and confiscated a number of rudimentary tools used by the dealers to cut and burn trees for charcoal burning and timber.
A man caries one of the bags of charcoal confiscated A log of a tree cut away from the forest
One of the suspects stands with a police officer
A woman cries after her charcoal being confiscated
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