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Ouch Leng<\/span>
Leng Ouch is a Cambodian forest activist and human rights defender. He was born in a farmers family in the Province of Takeo.<\/h5>

He founded a Human Rights Task Force to protect\u00a0 farmers and secure land rights against illegal logging and corruption. Ouch’s investigations and the work of other environmental human rights defenders have put the Cambodian authorities under huge pressure.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>

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Since 2015, he has uncovered more than 2000 cases of illegal logging, in one of the most dangerous countries for environmental activism.<\/h5>[vc_empty_space height=”10px”]<\/div><\/div><\/div>

From 2002 to 2022 in Cambodia\u00a0 the\u00a0 total\u00a0 area of humid primary forest\u00a0 decreased\u00a0 by 33%<\/a>,\u00a0 making it one of the countries with the highest deforestation rate in the world. According to FAO<\/a>, since 2010\u00a0 Cambodia has lost 2,68%\u00a0 of forests\u00a0 each year. The government is granting concessions intended for large scale agricultural crops, such as sugar and rubber plantations but also driven by rosewood\u00a0 demand in China and worldwide. As Leng Ouch documented, because of these concession, s many poor rural communities have been forcibly displaced. The human rights defender has uncovered land grabbing by Chinese and western corporations, illegal logging operations conducted by Cambodia\u2019s biggest timber magnates, smuggling of precious wood, and widespread corruption within the national and local authorities.<\/p>\n

Ouch Leng\u00a0 won\u00a0 the Goldman Prize <\/a>\u00a0for his activism.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>

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<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[vc_single_image image=\"24057\" img_size=\"full\" style=\"vc_box_rounded\"]Ouch LengLeng Ouch is a Cambodian forest activist and human rights defender. He was born in a farmers family in the Province of Takeo.He founded a Human Rights Task Force to protect\u00a0 farmers and secure land rights against illegal logging and corruption. Ouch's investigations and the work of other environmental human rights defenders have put the Cambodian authorities under huge pressure. [vc_video link=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ib3kFo1I4BQ&t=32s\"]Since 2015, he has uncovered more than 2000 cases of illegal logging, in one of the most dangerous countries for environmental activism.[vc_empty_space height=\"10px\"]From 2002 to 2022 in Cambodia\u00a0 the\u00a0 total\u00a0 area of humid primary forest\u00a0 decreased\u00a0 by 33%,\u00a0 making it one of the countries with the highest deforestation rate in the world. 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