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The incident of the illegal felling of the 100-year-old Merbau tree by the Temenggor Lake is a sad incident for Malaysia. This when the state forestry department recently reported to the Perak mentri besar that it had found no illegal logging in the area.

Whilst we may not be able to brave the mosquitoes or trudge the swamps of Lake Temenggor to protect these trees, we can at least ask the Perak Mentri Besar what is he doing or going to do about the state forestry department blatantly lying to him.

We have to ask the Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) if they are now going to take the initiative to question the state forestry department cowboys. Can they possibly ask these people how they could have been so blind to miss a tree the diameter of a Kancil being taken out of the Temenggor region?

I may not be a timber man but I should imagine our forest rangers know of this illegal logging. Unless they are perhaps working in concert with the loggers to perpetrate this illegal act. Please do not take the Malaysian public to be a dumb buffalo (kerbau) by saying that this is the work of illegal loggers who operate in the stealth of night.

It does not take much to imagine that the loggers would require heavy machinery and huge 32- wheeler lorries to go into this remote area to smuggle out the cut timber.

Mohamad Tajol Rosli Ghazali, as menteri besar of Perak you are the boss in your state. You owe it not only to Perakians but to all Malaysian to resolve this issue.

I suggest that you personally lodge a police report over this matter and ensure that the illegal loggers are charged. I have no doubts our police department will be able to track down the trailer and its owner.

And once the police are able to identify the trailer, may I suggest that you personally lead a team of your officers to let out all the air of the trailer's 32 tyres so that it cannot disappear as police evidence.

We need to take this precaution for we have read that evidence kept with the police do occasionally get lost too.

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