The grandads fighting back against deforestation
The loss of forestlands is disastrous for the indigenous Koi people of south east Asia. The Chom Penh forest provides their homes, their food and their income.
Many in this region make their living from selling resin from the trees that surround them. But their ancestral forests, in northern Cambodia and into Thailand are being destroyed by a roaring trade in illegal logging. Satellite data released by the Cambodian human rights NGO Licadho suggested that in 2013 alone, the region lost 12.4% of its forests.
Almost a third of the forest, which is part of the Beng Per Wildlife Sanctuary, has been felled since 2000, according to the organisation.
Rachel Graham
