Back on timber patrol
When Cambodia’s most prominent forest activist, Chut Wutty, was gunned down in April 2012, the community network he created to sabotage the rampant deforestation of this vast forest fragmented. The forest patrols that he organised nearly ground to a halt. Without money to fund large-scale expeditions, and with a now well-established network of informants whom activists say have infiltrated their group, the task at hand has never been more difficult. … The operation, which included more than 80 people, embarked from a fork in the road in Kampong Thom’s Sandan district before Sunday’s first light. In the hope of giving the authorities the slip, they sent a decoy patrol to the nearby Vietnamese state-owned CRCK Company plantation, which has reportedly been used as a base to launder timber from Prey Lang. …
May Titthara and Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/back-timber-patrol
