Village forest activists strike back at 3 firms
A community forest patrol group trying to fight the destruction of protected forest in Kratie province’s Snuol district have, for the second time in two weeks, seized equipment from those they accuse of illegal logging. About 100 people from Svay Chreah, Snuol, Sre Cha, Pi Thnou and Khyoem communes launched a five-day patrolling mission on Monday to stop three Vietnamese companies with economic land concessions within the Seima Biodiversity Conservation Area from logging. Sorn Siyan, 66, accused the firms Binh Phuoc Kratie Rubber 1 Company, Binh Phuoc Kratie Rubber 2 Company and Eastern Rubber (Cambodia), which have adjacent 10,000-hectare concessions in the SBCA, of cutting forest beyond the areas they were authorised to log. …
