Police in Kasama have arrested five people for illegally cutting down trees in the forest reserve.
A combined team of state police and forestry officers nabbed the illegal dealers during a patrol operation conducted over the weekend.
Police sources told Zambia News and Infomation Services (ZANIS) that the illegal timber traders were caught red-handed cutting down trees in the protected area.
They said the suspects then led the police and forestry staff to where they had hidden some of timber, which they had already cut down.
The timber was recovered at a house in Mulenga Hills township, where the product was hidden in the saw-dust.
The Forestry Department has since warned that the crackdown on the illegal timber dealers would continue in order to curb the vice.
The Kasama Forest Reserve is very rich in a variety of indigenous and foreign tree species.
But the illegal timber business and farming activities are threatening the existence of the forests.
So far, some small-scale farmers in Kasama have invaded the Forest Reserve and are illegally cultivating agricultural crops in the protected area.
This is despite repeated warnings from the Forestry Department for them to refrain from the illegal activity.
The Forestry Department, in conjunction with the police, has since threatened to arrest people found growing crops in the protected areas.
Illegal timber dealers?????:-?:-?:-?
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Never been to Kasama before but “Mulenga Hills” sounds like a nice place.
Ati illegal timber business and farming activities are threatening the existence of the forests. Bufi ubu! All these years we in Bembaland have lived in harmony with nature.
Sry Mr Govt, there is no such thing as illegal timber, that part of nature from God. Those humans are just helping themselves before God helps them. DO YOU WANT THEM TO MOVE TO CITIES AND BECOME STREET VENDORS???????????????????????????/
Ba forestry dept naimwe, arresting these people is not a solution… help them acquire land for their farming or alternatively allocate them suitable land… only way of survival for them.. Elyo nga mwa bakaka, bafuma kulye nshi???? :-?:-?:-?:-?(:|(:|(:|(:|(:|(:|(:|(:|(:|(:|(:|(:|(:|8->8->8->8->8->8->8->8->8->8->8->8->8->8->8->8->**==**==**==**==**==**==**==**==**==**==
Because there are no jobs, anywe the means does not justify the end!
Pls napapata take these silly smiley faces off. They are being abused by bloggers who have lost direction due to the same.
DONORS have pledged to fulfill their budgetary commitments in next year’s Budget despite the global financial crisis, Finance and National Planning Minister, Situmbeko Musokotwane has said.
Dr Musokotwane said on the Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC) television programme, “National Watch” monitored yesterday that donors contributed 25 per cent of Zambia’s national Budget.A Nation of Beggars when are we going to grow and stand on our own.The Americans,the British owe us nothing and they are not required to fulfill their commitment.
Balekeni, pantu umwe mulelya bwino. Let them educate their children.
At least, police doing their jobs, I’m sure RB was not involved
Chitemene bebele!!!
Selfish individuals. Any cutting of trees (legal or illigal) should be stopped immediately.
Many useful and varying comments by subscribers here. Know that two wrongs do not make a right. There is no lans shortage in Kasama that folks should target forest reserves for cultivations.Cutting illegal timber is illegal whether done in the Amazon, Malaysia, or Zambia. Lands department should stop its corrupt allocations of land and give those fellows pieces of land outside all protected lands ..
Who says what is happening in the Kasama forest reserve is what we who know Chitemene should call that pilfering. If you want to see Chitemene go to Kwa Mu Mpolokoso, there you will find trees as old as 100 years lopped carefully every other three years. Mudala, balashapo nakampulu orcanopy
For survival its ok. Its better than a robbery.
These people must be charcoal burners..There wont be any BBQ in the summer.. :d/
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The UPND has proposed a set of short and long term measures to help cushion the impact of rising commodity prices and the global financial crisis.”
Source: ww w. zambianwatchdog. com/ ?p=774
This is what real men do instead of behaving like boys who make noise like gongs.
IN THE FIRST PLACE NOT CUTTING DOWN OF TREES SHOULDN’T ONLY BE RESTRICTED TO FOREST RESERVES. CUTTING DOWN OF TREES MUST BE OUTLAWED ANYWHERE, UNLESS FOR A SPECIAL PURPOSE AND WITH A PERMIT. HOW DARE THAT PEOPLE CUT TREES ANYWHERE AT THEIR WILL? IT IS JUST THAT ALL THE TIMES WE HAVE IRRESPONSIBLE GOVTs. TREES ARE PART OF THE ECOSYSTEM AND RESPONSIBLE GOVTs KNOW WHAT THAT IMPLIES. EVEN TREES WILL SOON FINISH IN ZAMBIA AND THATS NOT A JOKE.
iwa kapokola, let abakaele free and go to the main offices and see how pipo are doing there. cutting a tree does not affact the price of akabunga. get away from the forest and see the real derlars.
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