US urged to save trees

A group of environmental NGOs working to protect the Prey Lang forest called on the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to intervene and protect the region’s resin trees, or they will all be logged within six months, they claimed in a joint-statement issued yesterday. The statement urged USAID, which works in the region on a program called Supporting Forests and Biodiversity, to make efforts to add resin trees to its mandate. …

May Titthara
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