"What will be left of the forest if the people who are tasked to protect it turn around and use their power and authority to do the exact opposite? " Good question but the evidence is already there - just degraded land, and #Cambodia's failure to keep its natural resources helping to save the planet. Money will be made from the logging or agro-industrial use and from the bogus carbon credit schemes but very little of it will find its way to local and indigenous communities. Their lives and livelihoods will also be lost. Apart from those who profit from the exploitation, the other survivors will be the Conservation NGOs. If they can operate their projects and raise vast money for them while deforestation is relentless, they will be just as able to continue to pretend when nothing is left.
"What will be left of the forest if the people who are tasked to protect it turn around and use their power and authority to do the exact opposite? " Good question but the evidence is already there - just degraded land, and #Cambodia's failure to keep its natural resources helping to save the planet. Money will be made from the logging or agro-industrial use and from the bogus carbon credit schemes but very little of it will find its way to local and indigenous communities. Their lives and livelihoods will also be lost. Apart from those who profit from the exploitation, the other survivors will be the Conservation NGOs. If they can operate their projects and raise vast money for them while deforestation is relentless, they will be just as able to continue to pretend when nothing is left.