PHNOM PENH: A Cambodian conservation group has warned that logging in the protected Prey Lang forest has ramped up during the Covid-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, vowing it would continue to monitor the destruction despite government threats of legal action to stop that work.
Members of the Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) told the Thomson Reuters Foundation officials were allowing timber to be laundered through agri-business projects bordering the forest, one of Southeast Asia's last lowland evergreen woodlands.
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