Patrol detains loggers
A forest patrol in Ratanakkiri’s O’Yadav district spotted five loggers clearing the community’s ancestral forest on Tuesday, villagers and rights group Adhoc said yesterday. Adhoc provincial coordinator Chhay Thy said that three representatives of nearly 200 ethnic Jarai families in Pak Nhai commune asked for help after the patrol detained employees of Vietnamese concessionaire Company 72. The concessionaire has already cleared some 100 hectares of the 1,000-hectare forest on which villagers rely for the livelihoods, according to Thy …
Phak Seangly
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