Official blames villagers for deforestation
Government officials yesterday laid the blame for Cambodia’s deforestation on villagers gathering firewood. “Every day, they need fuel for cooking – that’s a lot of logging,” Chheng Kimsun, director general of the Forestry Administration, said at a workshop aimed at addressing sustainable forest management. Gathered at the Asia Forest Workshop in the capital, stakeholders from the government and Japan’s Kyushu University skirted issues of economic land concessions and illegal logging. … Than Sarath, spokesperson for the Forestry Administration, also held villagers responsible for forest destruction. …
Phak Seangly and Laignee Barron
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