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REDD Forests Endangered by Loggers, Soldiers

23 July 2012
The Cambodia Daily
Carbon trading and other Payments for Ecological Services (PES) / Community forest / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Environmental and biodiversity protection / Forest classifications / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Land / Logging and timber / National parks and wildlife sanctuaries / Trade
Banteay Ampil district / base / Beng commune / building / carbon trading scheme / carbon-trading project area / clinics / commune chief / community forest members / construction / deforestation / dollars / Families / farms / forest-based carbon trading scheme / Forestry Administration officials / Forests / local families / Military / military base / Neighbors / Oddar Meanchey Province / RCAF / rights groups / Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) / Sa Thlai / schools / soldiers / trees

Banteay Ampil district, Oddar Meanchey province – The families of Beng commune have new neighbors: a battalion of Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) soldiers building a military base inside one of 13 pockets across the province aiming to be the first forest-based carbon trading scheme ...

Villagers Accuse Armed Forces of Illegal Logging

Over the past half year, the military has established dozens of bases in protected community forests in Oddar Meanchey province and used them as an inroad for rampant illegal logging, villagers and forestry administration officials said yesterday. Nearly 2,000 villagers from local forest communities have thumbprinted ...

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