Forestry crimes triple, but fines down: report

[geovalin]

Mech Dara and Jack Davies

 

Illegal forest clearing is taking place at about three times the rate it did last year, but fines for forestry and wildlife crimes have fallen dramatically, according to a progress report released last week by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forests and Fisheries (MAFF).

 

The report catalogues all statistics from the ministry for the first nine months of the year, and shows markedly different figures across the board to the figures in the same report released last year.

 

Though a new anti-logging task force was created on Prime Minister Hun Sen’s orders at the start of the year, seizures of chainsaws through October were little more than half what they were in the same period last year – down to 249 from 452 – according to the report.

 

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[stephen tracy]

I didn't know there were any trees left in Cambodia. I thought Hun Sen had already sold them all.