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it's a pristine wilderness like no other. these are some of the largest and last remaining evergreen forests on the indo-china peninsula. but across the land the cambodian government has allowed agricultural developers to slash burn and plant cash crops. and illegal logging has spread out to nearby protected forests leading to a to live pillaging frenzy. one of one east investigates the wholesale destruction of cambodia's rainforests.

reeses cambodia's wadding sed with the mekong river boaters prey long forest one of the last remaining evergreen woodlands in southeast asia. it's also the domain of environmental warrior and lawyer or link who's made it his mission to protect the forest. a bit and by telling had come home but when i saw logging companies cutting trees and transporting logs right in front of me that i was committed to defend the forest. today lang is gathering evidence of illegal logging to pass on to conservation agencies and foreign governments a joint a time. winnie's cambodian owned company called think biotech can legally clear trees here but only within a specified boundary so where we go now to. consider is until

mr chen. but for now it looks like we won't be travelling further than the company roadblock . yet. that's what. blaine is investigating claims the company is pressuring villages to give up the precious prison trays the legally entitled to tap. and the company says if you don't accept the money you get nothing the company cuts them down anyway. we take another road that leads to the boundary between a protected forest and the company concession. and here we find him tapping resin trees as his family has done for 3 generations. the trees provide

a sustainable living for his family and a supposed to be protected but he has something devastating to show activist laying that out on top of the top down but i don't move off the pathway of the while. jim says he refused to accept any money for the trees but think by take cup them down any white 2000 of them. playing records the carnage in takes the satellite coordinates of every fall in tree. i feel very upset for the last forest from which i make my livelihood when i came here i'd always see many monkeys jumping and screaming all over the place now it's quiet. activities we film other villages scavenging for leftovers many still timber back to the companies to chop down the trees in the 1st place was to last this is

a village divided some here are trying to protect the forest others are paid by the company to tear it down. and get people village chief saying knowing he's on the side of consecration even though he's an official from cambodia's ruling party. that we all really want to stop the farmers from being destroyed but we don't know how to do it but you are a government official and your own government is allowing this to happen what do you think of that. and then we're here with the people dare not see anything at all government already granted the concession. the government is like our father and we are the children. as we drive off into the darkness the forest comes alive with activity on a road directly out of the protected area we encountered a rattling convoy of timber tractors so this is

a legally logged isn't completely illegal because any cat inside that area. then in a clearing a roadside stop and what lengths is a ranger post some water illegal loggers doing the right just asian meat that can detect the money from the tractor. accusing rangers of taking bribes is a serious crime i take lang's allegation tonight's picture a senior ministry of environment official an activist told us that. paying bribes to the riaa injures do you believe that would be the case the money created to work out about. this is an illegal act and the ministry would not tolerate this we do not support those who abuse the law and any activist who saw such activities should gather evidence and report to the ministry of environment so we can take legal action. cause and to gather evidence is precisely what wing has been doing

things using g.p.s. tracking satellite imagery and drawings he forensically exposes the big illegal loggers. i gather evidence in order to make reports about forest crimes. the simple try to the syndicates and recorded reams of damning evidence the picture that emerges is one of an environmental apocalypse ocus traded on a national scale but it seems the gulf. ment is not listening. i used to submitted to the government on several occasions but my reports were deemed dissenting negative and baseless against the government. this is the destruction of pristine wilderness in the ecosystems. the companies have another wood for it reforestation. they plant in cash crops like rubber and acacia.

we follow the trial of grazing trees cut down from for a long forest have ended up this primed. with chairman think by take is luci chang he says he can do what he wants as governments cross that concession in my area i must create a whole even my father station because lease is a video it must be created then we planned of tree. as us aerial we cannot. do you clear timber outside of the concessions. no we spoke to a villager said he was told that if. the company couldn't buy the trees they would take them anyway just that happen. and they moved by the throat. of the for the beach i just said take

throw my can say show. me its protected timber. he saw him an appliance any by lation on unscrupulous contractors he can't explain why big coordinated logging convoys traveling at night why do they travel at night time. they travel 1000 yes. you surely i know when they catch up to date her. the company chairman claims he's supporting poor local communities offering jobs to clear the forest so that something else can be planted highway were created to the new power. for the local people. who set up a school to set up everything in this coming dr he summary of.

cambodia's southwest lies a natural treasure. the cardamom ranges contain the 2nd largest village in rainforest on mainland southeast asian. illegal logging is rampant with the criminals who are up against a determined fools intent on stopping them so you conducted effective survey us good good good good and we discover that the illegal logging starts again. american conservationists so want to go to it is being briefed on the latest spike in illegal logging can you show me the exact where you want she leans the non-government organization wildlife alliance they supported by the government to work with police and local ranges to uphold the law so it's out of hand these kingpins have their own kingdom and the they have their informants in place they

have their local people they have their tractors their buffalo carts they have everything in place. so when his team includes former soldiers from eastern europe some who served in the french foreign legion today on a road leading from a national park they stop a procession of vehicles are going loaded with timber. the biggest role of our foreign law enforcement officers is to be watchdogs because good governance is the weakest point of the government agencies in this country it's. a very important that each case may follow it up. with the kind of memes being handed over by the government to big agricultural companies and developers. those areas have been stripped of valuable timber now the bordering protected forest is being ravaged. on patrol the wildlife alliance offices intercept

a slow moving target with a prized and valuable whole lot. back and that ultimately. it is locked out of jim. allen wildlife alliance ranger from logan in mach's tells us this man could face up to 5 years in prison for his load of luxury hardwood timber it might have been sold for many thousands of dollars it had reached its final destination but expensive anybody having to feed people to the water is going to be on the water and it's the south pacific smell. the ranges copus going to tim and sees the love used to try as well. very must have permission for council at the big check namable but i thought of the big that better way out here at the right because. look at this this. jihad against us that's.

it only 2 years left here so what does this represent for us these are weapons of mass destruction each a cell just. one. that. clears. i'm heading into the wilderness with wildlife alliance in forces police and dry and use. they have intelligence of an illegal logging camp deep in a protected area. after walking 7 kilometers it's the camp dog that gives away the location.

it's a rough life for the longest in these evidence they've been here for weeks you cannot leave. cannot leave a national park. and to send a message this forest camp is destroying. the camp well it tells us he only arrived here the day before and had been looking for dead trees to cut fence posts but he and the other occupants will be looking for somewhere else to sleep tonight . by the team discovers another illegal activity. the locals have constructed cumin to make charcoal. so when i last year do you think. they just run away. and they have struck the for sure because all you can maybe chuckle without the goddamn. despite all we've seen an official with cambodia's

ministry of environment downplays the situation. we accept that cutting the remaining forest does happen however large scale logging no longer exists. medium size and small scale operations the evidence suggests otherwise. just 5 months ago you claim filmed this large scale illegal logging on left. systematically. big time lawyers are moving in and they're headed by kingpin. carved out their own geographical if you will and nowadays there is no more forest

inside the concession so they use this piece of paper to go outside inside the national park as much wood as they possibly can and then launder it on the market. least. to hold back the forest destruction. in the middle of this country. i thought about this and i think that the feeling. and outside of the bubble the floodgates of willing truly are. across the other side of the country environmental activist or lane is taking us to phnom frick wildlife sanctuary vietnamese border it's a century in name only here to the government has allowed select companies to log

in assigned areas. and it took. almost a. heading to the cause of the sanctuary which old some of the forest most precious timber. this is the really special forest as it. had of us. don't have to travel to see how valuable it was forced to use it's a hazardous trip for these motorcycle riders but it's going to be worth it for the caring valuable painting that give the apple a lot. of. claims they kept inside a company concession. there's no such valuable timber there live to cut.

through so what he's saying is not the truth he actually stole it from the. age piece of timber can be sold to try to use for as much as $250.00 of this is probably a $10000.00 condo. assigned to syria is deserving of the highest level of protection. so no one's taking much notice are not of the government government sang officially a catalogue you aside european union big sign sign the cause i'm precious forest it's still being lost and. sometimes i cry i feel disappointed because i'm not able to protect the forest but i see that the destruction is so big but no one helps to protect it the government does not arrest the tree cutters but it arrest the forest activists. for companies to operate in this forest the since it got the rectitude. of the saw mills easy to find.

the government gave the green light to reopen the sawmills that had been closed as we can see 100000 hectares of the forests were cleared from the meat it's now extinct and will never return. soon timber the main garley good site was confiscated and this place is a ranger post it's another unlikely story. the further we drive the more sawmills ling finds it's important for him to record every discovery. but calling out illegal activity can be perilous in cambodia.

at a grave in the capital phnom penh a proud son remembers a brave father an icon of cambodians environment movement who daum is the son of church who paid the ultimate price for his activism. as are the sound of. the language and he really wanted me to love nature what he wanted was to stop the destruction of combo didn't forests. 7 years ago while investigating a logging company chewed wood he was shocked and he's remembered for confronting the most powerful illegal loggers in this country but that up until now could warn those he upset with a team of businessmen back then and today jim a businessman of powerful people who work in the government. investigation into the

killing of truth when he was closed made conflicting accounts of what happened. who don't is now following in the footsteps of his father. salvage there are a lot of unforgettable memories of his there always are there was a brave man a good father and a respectful dandiya. for trading a similar path to child would be lang navigates the dangerous calls it that there were no cats out of the royal government is involved in corruption and therefore the government armed forces and the companies hate the forest defenders. my drone was smashed several times when i received death threats you know i fled cambodia to thailand to see a repro vince however i still continue my work. in these teams the camp down to the. they've been tipped off there is timber on the moods where it's

going is an international scandal. to find out more we travel to cambodia's border with vietnam on a stretch of road playing is most familiar where. he will fall. along the rugged lang recognizes sponsors for the timber smugglers they hate to report anything they can upset business including the appearance of activists like him. in smaller program formation and. this is the official border but it's not the favored route to return to smugglers of my they're armed with about 20 illegal crossings here. and i can see the

checkpoint today there is a rampant illegal industry smuggling timber across this border but despite the work of laying in divers exposing it the news recently struck a deal that will allow vietnam to certify its own timber exports to europe vietnam is a fictive lee laundering then exporting illegally logs timber from cambodian forests i'm fed up with the european union they are good they engage in the timber trade with vietnam even though they know that vietnam is a rascal and a thief who steals the timber for. the a use is the deal only proceed if it's convinced he's acting lawfully but there is no doubt about this illegal cross border trying it's something even high ranking officials in the government it made it out i mean there is still timber going. across the border because there is a black market in that area these activities are illegal that's why the ministry of

environment as well as other relevant ministries and border officials cracking down on forests cripes. back in the car of my mountain road block alarms for an enforcer a new school drug and another day's patrol with local rangers and police. illegal logging and poaching go hand in hand here when the locals are going in the forest. to collect fruits or whatever they are bringing with them the homemade gun snares so they got honk and set up truck from the same times. by entitled to harm for their own use hunting in a protected area it's illegal and i was. illegal but wrong fortunately sometimes the hunters get caught the good job guys who are what you did yesterday

we're happy to confiscate the quietens but is going to happen today we're going to go up the river and release the snakes. are you going to solution has 7 right just scattered over a large area of the car. with his posts to be so it would snatch away habitants at a time of trying to mount on the black market so is the idea to to trap and bring these animals back alive or is it to kill both. traditional medicine has always been the biggest drive along with restaurants for the animal parts that are trafficked to china and vietnam and they are range from the charismatic elephants in tigers and bears all the way down to lizards and snakes and turtles and turtle ices. the pythons are released into an area with a should be so you. would most of cambodia. you so-called protected areas or anything but likes new wildlife sanctuary me the vietnam border this

is a satellite image from 10 years ago. this is how it looks today. almost completely bereft of animals and forest. 10 year ago as is its jungle or nest and of forests and. what actually happened here a few years back i would come to destroy the forests here. in this poor country people living off the land as they always have. a fast money is pushing many to ravage their irreplaceable forests. promoted by logging companies seemingly condoned by cambodia's government the largest rainforest in southeast asia my soon to be alluding missed last.

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