PHNOM PENH: Illegal exports of timber from Cambodia to Vietnam surged in recent months despite an export ban aimed at countering rapid deforestation in one South-East Asia’s poorest countries, an environmentalist group said in a report.
The London-based Environmental Investigation Agency yesterday estimated that over 300,000 cubic metres of timber had been smuggled out of Cambodia since November.
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