National parks to crack down on illegal forest product collectors
Social affairsMar 6, 2017
The Korea National Park Service said Sunday that it will clamp down on those who illegally harvest forest products as part of its efforts to protect the parks’ ecosystem.The agency will mainly try to block people who bring equipment to cut trees and harvest plants such as medicinal mistletoe, one of the most illegally collected forest plants in the national parks during the winter. The KNPS said it will form a special task force to carry out the measure, which will run until the end of March. Vi