Firms’ Timber Trade Decried
Two firms holding concessions in rapidly disappearing northern forests are amassing stockpiles of tens of thousands of luxury logs cut both within and outside their leases and trucking them on to Vietnam, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights has alleged.
CCHR investigators that tracked logging operations have snapped video and pictures of huge stockpiles of logs they allege are being transported between economic land concessions granted to Vietnamese firm CRCK and powerful tycoon Try Pheap.
They allege the logging operations amount to a criminal misuse of the two firm’s ELCs under various provisions of sub-decrees regulating the use of such concessions and the environmental impacts of their development. …Neither company could be reached for comment yesterday, but Kampong Thom Provincial Governor Uth Sam Orn said the logging operations described in his province had gained legal permission. …
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