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As China Builds, Cambodia's Forests Fall

2013-01-29 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Public Radio: China's demand for natural resources is being felt in a big way in Cambodia. Illegal logging and economic land concessions are threatening Cambodia's dwindling forests, which now echo the sound of chainsaws. Prey Lang forest -- an eight-hour journey north and east of the capital, Phnom Penh -- is one of the forests where illegal loggers see money signs on the trees. Supply And Demand "It's just like in the United States in the 1960s, when every single redwood tree was a target for illegal...

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