Urbanisation, commercial farms threaten Asia's forests, UN warnsIn this Feb 26, 2015 photo, a road runs through a rubber plantation operated by Socfin-KCD, a European-Cambodia joint venture, in Mondulkiri province in eastern Cambodia. "Unfortunately, conservation of forests in one country often just shifts deforestation to another," she said. Governments control more than two-thirds of global forest area, much of which is claimed by local communities, according to advocacy group Rights and Resources Initiative. India's Forest Rights Act, Indonesia's Social Forestry Programme and Cambodia's social land concessions are examples of legislation that have tried to restore rights to communities. This is diluting social and environmental safeguards, and could change forest landscapes irretrievably," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Source: Bangkok Post June 18, 2019 05:09 UTC