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Government timber figures belie ‘ban’ on Vietnam trade

A series of quarterly reports from the National Bank of Cambodia raises questions about the government’s ban on timber exports, as they show that last year, more than $5 million in sawn timber was exported from the Kingdom. The latest report, released earlier this month ...

Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-timber-figures-belie-ban-exports

Despite ban, timber exports to Vietnam nearing 2016 total

Cambodian timber exports to Vietnam over the first six months of the year have almost surpassed the total amount for all of last year, according to Vietnamese customs data, despite an existing ban on the trade – which one analyst said had “entirely failed” in ...

Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/despite-ban-timber-exports-vietnam-nearing-2016-total

Vietnamese data show timber exports are continuing

According to the figures, Vietnam imported 21,670 cubic metres of sawn wood valued at $13.7 million in April, a 27 percent drop compared to February and an almost 50 percent decrease compared to March. ...

Shaun Turton and Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/vietnamese-data-show-timber-exports-are-continuing

Rosewood exports down

In the first nine months of 2015, exports of Cambodian rosewood to China – the Kingdom’s largest market for the protected species – have declined by as much as 95 per cent compared with the same period last year, data released by NGO Forest Trends ...

Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rosewood-exports-down

ELCs tied to destruction of forests in new report

Cambodis’s most crucial forests are disappearing at a rate of more than 2,000 kilometres a year, as agricultural firms continue to harvest timber by illegal means in protected areas and national parks, according to a study from Washington-based Forest Trends. ...

Ethan Harfenist
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/elcs-tied-destruction-forests-new-report

Alarm over 'timber grab' from Cambodia's protected forests

The analysis, from campaign group Forest Trends, says that large corporations are using legitimate development permits to illegally clear land.Around 2,000 sq km of forests are being lost every year, they say. ...

Matt McGrath
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33702814

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