40 hectares razed in R’kiri

26 April 2013
The Phnom Penh Post
Environment and natural resources / Environmental and biodiversity protection / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Logging and timber / Protected areas / Protected forest
Adhoc / Adhoc senior investigator Pen Bonnar / Company 72 / illegal logging / Men Sarun Company / O’Yadav district / Pen Bonnar / Phat Phoeun / protected forest / Ratanakkiri provincial court / Rattanakiri / Rattanakiri Forestry Administration / Sav Hlin

More than 40 hectares of protected forest in Rattanakiri’s O’Yadav district was razed by a Vietnamese company over the course of six days before they were stopped yesterday by villagers and investigators from rights group Adhoc, a local official said. Sav Hlin, a village chief in the district, said he had received news from villagers that the company – known to them as Company 72 – had been working in the area. “After I found out they were clearing the forest, we went straight there to stop the vehicles immediately,” said Hlin, who added that more than 40 hectares of the forest land had been cleared by the time he got there with a group of villagers and two Adhoc investigators. ...

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