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Global Witness first began exposing illegal logging in Cambodia and its links with conflict, corruption and human rights abuses in 1995.

Its early work exposed how, in the last years of Cambodia's civil war, both the Khmer Rouge and the Phnom Penh government used logging to fund military campaigns and then used military campaigns as a pretext for more logging.

The war ended in 1998, but the destruction of Cambodia's forests has continued. Global Witness has carried on investigating illegal logging and associated corruption in Cambodia, exposing the individuals and companies involved, and revealing the schemes which allow them to operate.

Despite many campaign successes, Cambodia's leaders have still not kicked the habit of treating the country's forests as a personal slush fund. The environmental, social and economic costs of this are severe. Today, Cambodia's forests continue to be exploited by those in power and are under threat of complete destruction.

Watch our film on illegal logging in Cambodia:

The Green Deal in Cambodia Part 1
The Green Deal in Cambodia Part 2
The Green Deal in Cambodia Part 3

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