Business boom depletes forests
During the past four years, Cambodia has seen drastic decreases in rare species of trees due to illegal logging, community research from the National Resource Protection Group indicates. If continued unabated, illegal logging threatens to wholly deplete Cambodia’s rare tree species, Chut Wutty said. Cambodia’s Forestry Administration is responsible for the regulation of illegal logging. Yet the vastness of the Kingdom’s forests greatly limits its protection efforts, David Emmett, regional director of Conservation International’s Greater Mekong programs, said.
