{"id":12055,"date":"2026-03-19T03:33:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T03:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/?p=12055"},"modified":"2026-03-19T03:33:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T03:33:24","slug":"myanmar-seizes-over-84-tons-of-illegal-timber-arrests-16-offenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/?p=12055","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar seizes over 84 tons of illegal timber, arrests 16 offenders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>19 March 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Myanmar authorities have seized over 84.3 tons of illegal timber across the country during a week-long operation, the state-owned daily Myanma Alinn reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From March 9 to 15, the confiscated timber included over 18.4 tons of teak, over 8.4 tons of hardwood and over 57.5 tons of other types of timber in the country&#8217;s regions, states and Nay Pyi Taw Union Territory, the report said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During this period, 16 suspects were charged in connection with the cases, and 12 vehicles and machines were also seized, it added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country&#8217;s Forest Department has been cracking down on illegal logging and trade of forest products through various measures, including a community monitoring and reporting system, the report said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>19 March 2026 Myanmar authorities have seized over 84.3 tons of illegal timber across the country during a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12057,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12055\/revisions\/12057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}