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Illegal logging has taken a huge toll in recent years on the forest-covered southern half of the city of 9 million inhabitants. “They have finished off the forest,” Alfredo Gutiérrez ...

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Credit: Flickr/Nith Kosal Subscribe for ads-free reading A prominent Cambodian environmentalist has been arrested along with five others while investigating illegal logging in a national park ...

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Illegal logging is particularly acute in San Miguel Topilejo, which, because it has forests and is crossed by highways, makes it an attractive place for gangs to cut logs and move them to sawmills.