COVID-19 lockdown precipitates deforestation across Asia and South America

Mongabay
Jul 3, 2020, 6:03 am899 ptsInteresting
On May 15, authorities in the northeastern province of Si Sa Ket in Thailand arrested two Cambodians and six Thai workers for illegally removing a large Siamese rosewood tree from an area designated as a wildlife sanctuary. The eight men had taken the tree clean out of the ground and tried to persuade the Huai…

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