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23.
Cheang Sokha and Chhay Channyda, “Hun Sen Fires Forestry Director,”
Phnom Penh Post
,
April 7, 2010.
24.
Official figures were published by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization as part of its
Forest Resources Assessment for 2010. At
http://www.fao.org/forestry/fra/fra2010/en/
(ac-
cessed Mar. 2014). Environmentalists claim the government's forest cover statistics are vastly
exaggerated. According to satellite maps published in late 2013 by Open Development Cam-
bodia, total forest cover stood at 46.3%. The maps also showed that dense forest had fallen
from 34.5% in 2000 to just 10.8% in 2013. Maps and data available at
ht-
tp://www.opendevelopmentcambodia.net/briefings/forest-cover/
(accessed Mar. 2014).
25.
Douglas Gillison, “World Bank Seeking Answers over Dragon's Tail,”
Cambodia Daily
,
August 17, 2007.
26.
World Bank, “Biodiversity and Protected Areas Management Project, Annual Project Pro-
gress Report 2004,” 11.
27.
Jeremy Hance, “Exploring Asia's Lost World,” interview with Greg McCann, mon-
gabay.com, May 3, 2012. At
http://news.mongabay.com/2012/
0503-hance_mccann_interview.html
(accessed Mar. 2014).
28.
Matthew Smith, “Patronage and Corruption in Cambodian Forestry,” Master's thesis,
University of Oslo, June 2007, 60.
29.
Prak Chan Thul, “R'kiri Ex-Governor Gets 17 Years for Illegal Logging,”
Cambodia Daily
,
November 24, 2006.
30.
Smith, “Patronage and Corruption in Cambodian Forestry,” 68-70. Regarding Bou Thang's
background, see Ben Kiernan,
The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambod-
ia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996), 83; Timothy
Carney, “Heng Samrin's Armed Forces and the Military Balance in Cambodia.”
International
Journal of Politics
16, no. 3 (Fall 1986): 150-85, at 157.
31.
World Bank, “The Biodiversity and Protected Areas Management Project: Implementation
Completion and Results Report,” October 15, 2008, 11-12.
32.
Regarding the allocation of mineral exploration rights, see Global Witness,
Country for Sale
,
15-34.
33.
Ibid., 49.
34.
George McLeod, “Cambodia Finds Oil and Changing Fortunes,”
Bangkok Post
, December
17, 2006.
35.
Simon Lewis, “BHP Billiton Faces Bribery Charges after Abandoned Project,”
Cambodia
Daily
, August 19, 2013.
36.
Vrieze and Naren, “Carving Up Cambodia.”
37.
“Cambodia's Top Ten Tycoons,” diplomatic cable from US Embassy Phnom Penh
(07PHNOMPENH1034), August 9, 2007.