So this is how the ruling elite can afford their fancy P1 and Porsches.
Source: [url]http://m.phnompenhpost.com/national/bre ... n-registry[/url]
[quote]The Interior Ministry today announced it had stricken critical environmental NGO Mother Nature from its registry, effective immediately, just days after the group called attention to major discrepancies in silica sand exports to Taiwan.
In a letter disclosing the move, the ministry said the NGO had requested the removal of its own accord in a letter from Mother Nature head Prum Thomacheat on August 23 requesting dissolution of the environmental group.
Deported Mother Nature co-founder Alejandro Davidson-Gonzalez said today that the request had been prompted by constant harassment of two other co-founders, Thomacheat and fellow monk Sok Chantra
Taiwanese trade figures show imports of silica sand dwarfing Cambodia’s recorded exports to the tune of some $30 million. The revelation followed a similar scandal involving exports to Singapore, which recorded some $700 million dollars more in imports than Cambodia recorded in exports, prompting suspicions of impropriety.
Additionally, the two Mother Nature activists who first pointed out the silica sand discrepancies – Dem Kundy and Hun Vannak – were arrested for filming suspected sand-bearing vessels in Koh Kong province, and have since been charged with incitement and making unauthorised recordings.
Today’s letter, signed by Interior Ministry Secretary of State Pol Lim, says that the ministry had decided to remove Mother Nature from the government’s list of NGOs, thereby invalidating any documents given to the group permitting its operations in Cambodia.
“The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior [Sar Kheng] decides to cancel the Mother Nature organisation … from the list of the non-governmental organisations of the Ministry of Interior,” the letter reads.
The NGO has been a thorn in the government’s side with its consistent reporting on sand dredging activities in the country’s southwest. Its outspoken activism also precipitated the deportation of Gonzalez-Davidson in 2015.
Ministry spokesman Khieu Sopheak today maintained the conservation group had requested the cancellation because “they do not have money”.
Sopheak also claimed that the group was faltering after the deportation of Gonzalez-Davidson and that some people, both within and outside the organisation, were using its name “wrongly from their goal”, though he did not divulge any details.
Gonzalez-Davidson, however, dismissed the claims that funding was behind the dissolution. Thomacheat and Chantra, he said, held a meeting in August and decided to dissolve the NGO following consistent harassment of the duo, which he claimed almost resulted in their arrest last year.
He added that the repeated harassment and arrest of the group’s activists – which he charaterised as “state-sponsored kidnappings” – showed the group would be “sitting ducks” if they continued as a registered NGO.
“So the best strategy is to not continue as a registered NGO but as a movement of concerned citizens,” he said. “All our members are volunteers and we don’t need much funding.”
He said nobody “in their right mind” would believe the ministry and Sopheak’s comments on the group’s lack of funding and support from donors.
“The end result [of this] will be better. And we will be able to focus on other campaigns as well,” he said, adding that “we will continue regardless of this letter”.[/quote]
Sand exports cover up by high officials
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Sand exports cover up by high officials
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Sounds like a drop in the bucket compared to all the timber that's been exported.
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Same MO and same beneficiaries.Edwardo wrote:Sounds like a drop in the bucket compared to all the timber that's been exported.
This time though, like with Singapore, it's been proven and documented. The government and the ACU isn't very concerned apparently. Better to put in jail the "traitors" than go after the real thieves.
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Well you have to find other sources of income to rape and pillage after all the trees are gone. All they are going to have left in Cambodia is fucking sand anyhow... I guess they figure they needed to find a market for it.Edwardo wrote:Sounds like a drop in the bucket compared to all the timber that's been exported.
1984
2016
A little closer up
Using fake photos won't help anyone. How does google earth have pristine satellite images from 1984?
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Fake photos? Right...Bubble T wrote:Using fake photos won't help anyone. How does google earth have pristine satellite images from 1984?
They are not pristine images by any means. Using the historical function on Google Earth the further back in date the less detail are in the images. Zooming in on the 1984 images are very blurry.
Go and check out the function yourself.. or better yet, take yourself on a drive in the country if you think its fake...
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The ACU is a complete joke. In term of sand dredging just like deforestation as long as their spoiled children can have their donuts and some shit coffee at Brown's every morning. It is ingrained until the natural resources in this country is completely depleted. It is happening and preaching the locals about conservation. Fuck those lovely, lovely man!
There's a correlation between GDP and deforestation.
Developing nations' resources get raped (by homegrown and overseas forces) and it reaches a "forest transition" period whether through socioeconomic changes, environmental legislation and increased GDP whereby the destruction is reversed.
A large chunk of forest is cleared by locals who use the wood as fuel. Cambodia gets 80% of it's fuel from non fossil fuels.
Whilst all the panic and outrage is justified trees do grow back and within 50 years the forests of Cambodia will be well recovered, if not ancient.
At least I really hope so...
Developing nations' resources get raped (by homegrown and overseas forces) and it reaches a "forest transition" period whether through socioeconomic changes, environmental legislation and increased GDP whereby the destruction is reversed.
A large chunk of forest is cleared by locals who use the wood as fuel. Cambodia gets 80% of it's fuel from non fossil fuels.
Whilst all the panic and outrage is justified trees do grow back and within 50 years the forests of Cambodia will be well recovered, if not ancient.
At least I really hope so...
pew, pew, pew, pew!
A lot has been recovered already.... by rubber forest.YaTingPom wrote:There's a correlation between GDP and deforestation.
Developing nations' resources get raped (by homegrown and overseas forces) and it reaches a "forest transition" period whether through socioeconomic changes, environmental legislation and increased GDP whereby the destruction is reversed.
A large chunk of forest is cleared by locals who use the wood as fuel. Cambodia gets 80% of it's fuel from non fossil fuels.
Whilst all the panic and outrage is justified trees do grow back and within 50 years the forests of Cambodia will be well recovered, if not ancient.
At least I really hope so...
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The problem is that forests dont simply grow back the same when they are clearcut for all sorts of reasons - soil degredation, drought ect - especially primary forest. A lot of sivilculture success is on how the land was treated whilst being cleared. I am no expert but I would guess that a lot of the land thats been cleared here has little chance to regenerate well on its own and I doubt they are replanting anything other than economic trees.YaTingPom wrote:There's a correlation between GDP and deforestation.
Developing nations' resources get raped (by homegrown and overseas forces) and it reaches a "forest transition" period whether through socioeconomic changes, environmental legislation and increased GDP whereby the destruction is reversed.
A large chunk of forest is cleared by locals who use the wood as fuel. Cambodia gets 80% of it's fuel from non fossil fuels.
Whilst all the panic and outrage is justified trees do grow back and within 50 years the forests of Cambodia will be well recovered, if not ancient.
At least I really hope so...
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This reminds me of a story I saw a few weeks ago, How 12,000 Tonnes of Dumped Orange Peel Grew Into a Landscape Nobody Expected to Find, about how they dumped orange peels in deforested land, and 16 years later they couldn't even find the dump site because the whole was too overgrown.
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That's one if the dumbest statements I've heard come out of you and shows your complete ignorance on the subject.YaTingPom wrote: Whilst all the panic and outrage is justified trees do grow back and within 50 years the forests of Cambodia will be well recovered, if not ancient.
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