This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Rainforest Investigations Network where Gerald Flynn was a fellow. Names have been changed to protect sources who said they feared reprisals from the authorities. KOH KONG, Cambodia In April 2022, the sound of a sawmill cut through the murky dawn that was steaming over Cambodia’s western […]
This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Rainforest Investigations Network where Gerald Flynn is a fellow. SIEM PANG, Cambodia “Us locals cannot source benefits from the forest anymore, only the Oknhas can find benefits in the forest now,” Samnang said one afternoon in January, using a Khmer word for tycoons. His farm […]