Itanagar: Arunachal Pradesh minister Mama Natung on Tuesday informed the Assembly that the state forest department will soon convene a meeting with its counterpart in Assam for evolving a mechanism to check rampant illegal felling of trees by timber mafias in jungles along the border of the two North-eastern neighbours.
...Arunachal to hold meeting with Assam on illegal tree felling in border forests
The minister said that the government has temporarily suspended eight wood-based industries for their involvement in illegal timber trading and is also monitoring other such industries.