Unchecked tree felling inside the Tura Peak reserve forest is taking place right under the nose of the forest department. A group of young students from Tura who went hiking through the Chitoktak area of Tura, on saturday, were shocked to find makeshift illegal sawing stations deep inside the reserve which were being used by timber smugglers to fell precious trees from the reserve. At several places trees had been removed with the only evidence being its stumps revealing the kind of destruction taking place to this sensitive eco-system which provides clean air and supports the streams that flow down to Tura and the plains. ST photo
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