This may seem a little story to start a thread on, but it is very upsetting... to think that they are cutting big old trees right out of Angkor Wat park.
https://cne.wtf/2021/07/13/more-angkor- ... l-logging/
They cut down all the rest of Cambodia's most grand and precious trees already twenty and thirty years ago. There has been no real attempt to regrow forests anywhere, correct me if I'm mistaken.....
But this brazen destruction in the gem heart of the nation shows you the low level of social development still at play in Cambodia. Despite the material trappings of growing middle class social sophistication, the actual behavior of people with real power seems corrupted beyond repair.
The point is: no way these poachers could take trees from Angkor park without complicity of the management. Maybe its the park officers themselves doing this?
Put the Mother Nature activists in jail for a long time instead of the corrupted bosses of the park and the military police who permit the export of timber to China and Vietnam. Brilliant, and it proves the government prefers to keep people ignorant... These dumb bugs who think money and power are all that counts are ruining everything. But they rule the world... Everywhere, rich and poor countries, alike...
Rosewood Poaching at Angkor Wat
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Rosewood Poaching at Angkor Wat
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If some of those Khmer politicians could sell Angkor Wat to the Chinese for their own personal profit they'd do it without batting an eye. It'll probably happen.
Trees steal oxygen, cut them all down and no one will have a heart attack or faint.
Speaking of luxury timber at temples, does anyone know if most temples in the Koh Keh complex still have Beng trees growing all around them? I visited about ten years ago and most temples had at least 2 sizeable Beng trees growing near temples.
If it is true rosewood that close to Angkor Wat, Leang Dai village is just North of Penh Khan temple, it is surprising it has lasted as long as it has. When you are out in the forests of Pursat, Battambang and Koh kong, and you see the size of collected true rosewoods, it is rare now to see pieces of greater diameter than your waist. The various cashes I have come across are typically 10-30 pieces ranging from 1-3m long and averaging thigh thickness. In natural forests they collect all rosewood, even if the heartwood is really quite small. Huge rosewood, say over 80cm diameter at breast hight, might still exist, but I've never seen any growing, and seeing the enthusiasm with which leg sized pieces are collected suggests that there isn't much left.
If it is true rosewood that close to Angkor Wat, Leang Dai village is just North of Penh Khan temple, it is surprising it has lasted as long as it has. When you are out in the forests of Pursat, Battambang and Koh kong, and you see the size of collected true rosewoods, it is rare now to see pieces of greater diameter than your waist. The various cashes I have come across are typically 10-30 pieces ranging from 1-3m long and averaging thigh thickness. In natural forests they collect all rosewood, even if the heartwood is really quite small. Huge rosewood, say over 80cm diameter at breast hight, might still exist, but I've never seen any growing, and seeing the enthusiasm with which leg sized pieces are collected suggests that there isn't much left.
Fine, not one frequent K440 reader knows if the Koh Ker temples (except the famous big pyramid) are still surrounded by Beng (hint the giant distinctive seed pods give them away, in the trees now, and on the ground year round).
How about in Phnom Penh, anyone know of any large Beng trees in the city?
(Because this is so interesting to internet readers generally, I might repost the question. As a dynamic new thread!)
How about in Phnom Penh, anyone know of any large Beng trees in the city?
(Because this is so interesting to internet readers generally, I might repost the question. As a dynamic new thread!)
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