China’s bloody timber trail

Phnom Penh Post: A cache of illegally cut young rosewood timber concealed at a make-shift weigh station in the Central Cardamom Protected Forest in Koh Kong province. Illegal logging has plagued Cambodia's protected forests for years. Photograph: Will Baxter/Phnom Penh Post The world's most precious trees are being rapidly logged into extinction in countries such as Cambodia and served up to Chinese consumers as "staggeringly" expensive ornate furniture with the complicity of Beijing, a comprehensive investigation...

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