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Firms’ Timber Trade Decried

28 May 2013
The Phnom Penh Post
Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Exports / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Human rights / Land / Logging and timber / Public land lease / Social development / Trade
Adhoc / Beoung Per / Beoung Per Wildlife Sanctuary / Cambodian Center for Human Rights / CCHR / Chhim Savuth / CRCK / CRCK Company / deforestation / ELCs / ELCs Law / environmental impact / Exports / Forest / Hoeun Sopheap / illegal logging / Illegal poaching / illegal timber trade / Kampong Thom Province / Kampong Thom Provincial Governor / logging / luxury timber / natural resources / Oknha Try Pheap / Preah Vihear / Prey Lang / Prey Lang Community Representative / Prey Long Forest / protected area / protected forest / Ratanakkiri / Ratanakkiri Province / Rovieng District / rubber / Rubber plantation / Sandan district / timber / Try Pheap Import and Export / Try Pheap Import Export Co Ltd / Try Pheap Import Export Company / Uth Sam Orn / Vietnamese border / Vietnamese company / Vietnamese rubber company CRCK / water / WaterSHED / wildlife / Wildlife Sanctuary / Wood

Two firms holding concessions in rapidly disappearing northern forests are amassing stockpiles of tens of thousands of luxury logs cut both within and outside their leases and trucking them on to Vietnam, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights has alleged. CCHR investigators that tracked logging operations ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052865880/National/firms-timber-trade-decried.html

Prey Long forest campaigners march on rubber plantation

11 November 2011
The Cambodia Daily
Environment and natural resources / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Human rights / Land / Logging and timber / Rubber / Social development
environmentalism / Kompong Thom Province / Kuy / Land concession / LICADHO / logging / Prey Long Forest / Prey Long People's Network / Protest / resin trees / Rubber plantation / timber / Vietnamese rubber company CRCK

Angered by the clearing of parts of Prey Long forest, several hundred indigenous minority villagers marched on a rubber plantation here in northern Kompong Thom province yesterday night and breached its gate in order to demand that the company stop cutting down trees in the ...

Villagers campaign in Kompong Thom to protect Prey Long Forest

7 November 2011
The Cambodia Daily
Environment and natural resources / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Land / Logging and timber
illegal logging / mining / non-timber forest products / Prey Long Forest / Prey Long People's Network / Protest / resin trees / Vietnamese rubber company CRCK

Hundreds of villagers living around Prey Long forest have begun a weeklong campaign in the north of Kompong Thom province to protect Prey Long, one of Cambodia's largest remaining primary forests, the Prey Long People's Network said yesterday... ...The group of villagers planned to protest later ...

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