![]() “I interviewed the workers and they told me that they transport the logs to sell to Think-Biotech Co., Ltd. “We were looking specifically for giant trees aged hundreds of years old,” he said, adding that hired workers “used 100–200 trucks to transport the logs.” In two days, he said his group located “more than 2,000 felled old-growth logs” in five different locations that it documented with photos and video-most of which are resin-producing trees that local residents rely on for their livelihood. The authorities must guarantee that no one can cut down the supposedly ‘protected forest’ areas of Prey Lang.” “The authorities not only didn’t stop the illegal loggers, but they tried to stop our activities and attempted to arrest us, even though we are defenders of the environment who have been working hard and sacrificing our lives to prevent Cambodia’s forests from disappearing,” he said. ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, felled logs lay unprocessed and awaiting transport throughout the areas the group monitored, he said.īut while Lovers of the Environment worked to document the illegal logging, according to Heng Sros, local authorities followed the group throughout the forest closely watching its activities and seemingly working in conjunction with forestry officials to try to arrest its members. on the outskirts of Prey Lang, where they were processed and sold for around U.S. Heng Sros, one of the group’s campaigners, told RFA’s Khmer Service on Thursday that over the course of just two days he saw “hundreds of people” in the forest illegally cutting down old-growth trees and transporting them to sawmills run by Think-Biotech Co., Ltd. Environmental activists patrolling Prey Lang forest in Cambodia’s central plains said Thursday that authorities interfered with their work and even tried to arrest them after they documented a local company conducting extensive illegal logging in the protected area.Ī group known as Lovers of the Environment, which is mostly comprised of youth activists, launched a campaign on Wednesday to drive their motorbikes through Prey Lang’s wildlife sanctuary areas of O’Anamai, O’Romany, O’Krak, O’Sgnuot, and Red Mountain over the course of five days to monitor for illegal logging activities.
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