Kiri District: The Kiri Provincial Environment Department has appealed to citizens engaging in anarchic gold mining as a family in protected areas to immediately stop their activities to avoid loss of life and imprisonment.
The call was made on Sunday, April 20, in a statement to enlighten the public on the legal action against offenders who committed illegal forest and mining offences in the nature protection area after allegations that the legal action was only for small citizens.
On April 12, the department cracked down. It detained 20 suspects and brought them to the Department of Environment for questioning and referral of the case to the Kiri Provincial Court of First Instance.
The department appealed to citizens who are smuggling all forms of anarchic gold mining in the nature protection area "to stop all activities and report to the Kiri Provincial Department of Environment or through the telephone system 090 523 456 to participate in preventing all mineral resource offenses, which are in the common interest of the nation as well as cause serious impacts on the social environment and even risk loss of life."
For the offense of transporting timber, the Department of Environment has already conducted an investigation and research at the location where the suspects have been smuggled 3 times, in which 2 suspects have been intercepted and suppressed, sent to the first court, and the province has also completed the procedure.
In addition, the department has also put in place strict measures against officers at the headquarters to regularly prevent and deter all types of natural resource offences in protected areas.
Apart from that, for companies licensed to study, explore, and conduct mining business in protected areas, the Department has regularly monitored the companies' performance and taken action against all companies that do not comply with the environmental protection contract.
The Department of Environment mentioned that all these activities demonstrate the proper and fair implementation of the law, which is not like the allegations.
Two out of nine citizens living in the village of Khom Khom Chok, Kew Sima District, Kiri Province, were swept away by the landslide while they were digging for gold during the rainy season earlier this April.
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