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Library Money grows on trees: criminals get away with destroying Cambodia’s forests

Money grows on trees: criminals get away with destroying Cambodia’s forests

Money grows on trees: criminals get away with destroying Cambodia’s forests

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Date of publication
December 2001
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ISBN / Resource ID
eldis:A9806

In 1995, corrupt officials secretly awarded all of Cambodia’s unallocated forest, 35 per cent of the country’s total land area, as concessions to logging companies. How have these rogue loggers exploited political instability and weak government institutions to plunder Cambodia’s timber? Can anything be done to check the depredations of the ‘untouchables’ before Cambodia is logged out?

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