Three charged with clearing forest
Three men were charged on March 21 with clearing forest in Kampong Thom province’s Santuk district in a failed attempt to take ownership of nearly 40 hectares of state land. According to a report on the Agriculture Ministry’s Facebook page on March 21, two tractors were confiscated and three people were detained. Provincial Forestry Administration officials cracked down at two locations in Boeung Lvea commune on Monday. At the first location, a tractor was confiscated and two people were detained after they set fire to a forest in a bid to claim ownership of 30.64 hectares.
