Global Witness

Threats against Cambodian Forest Defenders Escalate Amid COVID-19

27 May 2020
Global Witness
(Illegal logging) / National parks and wildlife sanctuaries
Cambodia / COVID-19 / Prey Lang

It takes particularly cynical government officials to use the world’s focus on tackling COVID-19 to accelerate illegal logging of protected forests; simultaneously lining the pockets of business elites, attacking environmental activists, and sabotaging its own ability to fight the climate emergency. Yet this is exactly ...

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Threats against Cambodian Forest Defenders Escalate Amid COVID-19

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