Prey Lang still logged: community
Continued widespread logging in the Prey Lang forest is evidence that the government’s recent push to have more than 400,000 hectares of land protected is toothless, according to activists as well as a Prey Lang Community Network report released on 29 June. The report’s purpose was to inform the government, general population and network of communities surrounding Prey Lang of the status of the protected forest. In 2002, 61 percent of the forest remained, the report said. As of this year, that number has plummeted to less than 50 percent. Fellow community representative Phai Bunleang said that similar official negligence was being practiced elsewhere in and around Prey Lang and called for greater governmental support for the PLCN.
