Group discovers illegal logging
An expedition to expose illegal logging uncovered about 50 hectares of clear-felled forest yesterday that activists from the Prey Lang Community Network have filmed and photographed to lobby government officials, a group representative said. Chum Yin said more than 60 villagers had traveled to seven villages in three communes of Kampong Thom province’s Sandan district, unimpeded by authorities and police as they documented the alleged forest crimes. … Firms granted economic land concessions in the forest have been accused of using the leases simply to conduct massive logging operations, and chemicals used in mining operations have been linked to deforestation. …
