Community groups in Cambodia say logging surged with approaching election

Mongabay
Jul 29, 2018, 4:03 pm466 ptsHot
Local forestry groups have reported increased illegal logging in the weeks before Cambodia’s July 29 election, according to reporting by the Phnom Penh Post. “[Our] community is very worried about the perpetrators who migrate from other provinces and fell trees to sell,” Pich Porn, the head of the Preah…

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