Six Arrested For Bulldozing Flooded Forest Area

16 June 2014
The Cambodia Daily
Agricultural policy and administration / Agriculture and fishing / Community fisheries / Environment and natural resources / Environment and natural resources policy and administration / Environmental and biodiversity protection / Fishing, fisheries and aquaculture / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Government / Land / Logging and timber / Protected areas / Protected forest / Rivers and lakes / Water resources
Fisheries Administration / Samprorch commune

Military police joined forces with the Fisheries Administration in Kompong Thom province on Friday to arrest six men and confiscate four bulldozers being used to clear protected flooded forest in Stong district’s fisheries conservation area, officials said Sunday. District military police commander Khun Bunho said that on Friday afternoon, military police and local officials surrounded the bulldozers, which were actively clearing land in a fish conservation area in Samprorch commune. …

 Ben Sokhean
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