Minister calls for ban on chainsaw imports

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Minister calls for ban on chainsaw imports

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This is in order to stop illegal logging. They should also stop importing motorbikes because of all the accidents they cause.
A ban on the importation of chainsaws into Cambodia could be in the offing, after agriculture officials this week called for a nationwide crackdown on the illegal logging trade...

“The ministry and Forestry Administration are calling for a crackdown on these activities and a nationwide curbing of [illegal logging] will soon occur to try to control the problem,” he said.

Over the past two decades, numerous “logging crackdowns” have been announced by the government; however, forest monitors report that they rarely have any discernible positive impact on the ground...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/m ... aw-imports

And since they don't manage to police the laws that are already in place, they introduce some more. And there's nothing like a "crackdown" to show who's boss. :whip:
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Chainsaws, esp. from the manufacturer Stihl are prohibited from importing into 3rd world countries for a long time now.
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These are mostly Chinese or Vietnamese chainsaws. I think there is supposed to be a ban in place already, but...
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Ok, looks like it could be too late and they have already cut down all the trees that are worth any money.
( Try Pheap says that he will now stop illegal logging :ROFL: )

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Logging baron claims tree-felling days over...
Try Pheap wants to turn over a new leaf.
In an exclusive interview with the Post at the opening ceremony of his vast plantation in Preah Vihear province on Sunday, the media-shy tycoon spoke of a desire to cultivate a new image – a rags-to-riches account of a man who now wishes to give something back – and pledged to end his companies’ logging activities.

Philanthropy and charity are what he would like to be remembered for, rather than the gutting of Cambodia’s last remaining woodlands, for which a global watchdog dubbed him a “timber gangster”.
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/l ... -days-over

Damn this is so touching. :cry:
(Note to Vlad: hope that you noticed that he has "turned over a new leaf" - nice touch nas ?
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Sure to be branching out into other interests soon.
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Once you've made your fortune in dirty money, it's easy to go "clean"... Again, they're so short-sighted and fail to grasp the big picture. They put bandaids on hemorrhaging wounds.
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Pheap maintains that if he did not log and collect timber to fund his $5.6-million showroom in Kandal province’s Ang Snuol district – a museum of sorts dedicated to the very trees he is accused of uprooting – or to invest in plantations and other projects, the forest would be gone regardless.
“But in 300 years, the trees will still be [in the museum] . . . All kinds of timber will be displayed in the museum . . . and all Cambodians who do not know about the trees can go there to study."
I can imagine he'll be thought of as a sort of Cambodian version of Andrew Carnegie in a few hundred years. :roll: :?
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I believe years ago the King of Thailand made a decree banning chainsaws and you had to get permission to cut a tree down. After that the roads in from Burma were packed with trucks overloaded with big trees. Maybe the king here could make a decree. (does he actually do anything?)
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http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/p ... -chainsaws

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/c ... set-ablaze


http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/t ... ers-sought


All still from last year sept-oct 2015, but still more recent than above.

Last feb/march 2015 while driving moto upto lao border from stung treng city at the one closest to Paske?, i wasnt going to cross, but to explore, i did see many army trucks, and by the invisible border with lao i think they might have been over a few metres, but a road already been made deeper, so they could do their things out of sight.

Im just lucky they didnt follow me a few kilometres to the west, as i also walked over that invisible line to do a different sort of 'business'. Now i can say i shook hands with the president of laos.

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http://m.phnompenhpost.com/national/eth ... eah-vihear



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Ethnic Kuoy villagers from Rovieng district walk through a community forest in Preah Vihear province during a patrol in 2014. Photo supplied


21 Jul, 2016 Phak Seangly

Four members of a forest patrol were ambushed in Preah Vihear’s Cheam Pen community forest on Tuesday afternoon, according to deputy forest chief Ros Lim.

The attack comes as officials say the murders of a forestry official and policeman on patrol in neighbouring forests last November remain unsolved.

“The illegal loggers chased the rangers, who escaped into the village to get help,” Lim said, adding that the loggers had set up camp for a few nights to log in the forest, but were observed by rangers hauling timber on two buffalo carts.

The alleged victims belong to a group of 130 ethnic Kuoy community patrollers, who divide into 10 teams to patrol the forest every day. However, community member Sok San yesterday said the threat of violence had led some to give up the patrols.

“They threatened to shoot us, hack us up, and cut our throats in our homes,” he said. “We’re living in fear. We asked the authorities for help, but they ignored us; I don’t dare to go out.”

Rovieng district environmental director Chin Monorith said he instructed the community to contact Environment Ministry officials at Bueng Per Wildlife Sanctuary, whose remit Cheam Pen forest falls under.

Beung Per director Yan Bun Soeung yesterday told the Post he will be dispatching six rangers to accompany the community patrols starting today, adding that he was aware forestry crime was a problem in the sanctuary.

“We usually send our rangers to intercept it immediately. The loggers are cruel. Between 10 and 20 of them surrounded the rangers late last month,” Soeung said.

Last November, forestry official Seang Narong and district police officer Sap Yuos were gunned down while patrolling Preah Vihear’s forests. Provincial prosecutor Ly Lon yesterday said that neither case has been forwarded to the provincial court, nine months on.

Provincial Adhoc coordinator Lor Chann said that the police ought to forward the case to the court, regardless of whether suspects have been identified. “If they don’t have enough [evidence], the court will ask them to investigate more,” he said.

Deputy provincial police chief Chhoy Borin said the perpetrator was still at large. “It’s very difficult to investigate, especially in the army-controlled area,” he said.

Fingers were pointed at soldiers from Brigade 9’s Battalion 391 toPost reporters at the time of the murder.
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