Eye shine of a fishing cat at about 40m. @TreyKla that has been visiting my catfish. The first night I saw it, about 20m away it caught me off guard. Very strong reflection and up close. Should be able to snag some better pics once I get the black light setup again.

Night thoughts Rethinking urban planning is one of the key ways to combat the climate crisis. Too much land is now sealed and shady areas like trees are missing. Mayors and councilors are now more than challenged to make life better for city dwellers.💚🌲☘️🌿🌱🌳🍀💚

Who's hungry? FFS. Nothing escapes.

When local village Police start to act like they work for immigration you know you are stepping on the right toes.... unfortunately, for them, I'm a habitual line stepper, and I'm just going to wreck them.

Police meeting with lumber traffickers and never performing enforcement activities against them? What is one to think? 🤔

Sad, they need to hire someone to tell the locals they need to stop destroying their environment? Can I get the salary as a lump sum, now that I solved the issue? 😭

Great stuff here from Gerry Flynn on Cambodia's illegal fishing crisis. “The illegal fishermen become rich very fast, and we, the legal fishermen, are still poor,” said Noem Saran, another fisher in Chroy Svay. news.mongabay.com/2024/05/small-…

One has to wonder at the timing of this; As India prepares to send 4 Tigers to Cambodia because they are functionally extinct in the country. 🤔

Waiting to pickup illegal timber. Just another day in the Kingdom of Lumber...

Repeat offender. Enforcement has caught and submitted this vehicle for prosecution, multiple times. Back again. Rumor has it, it belongs to the head of Police in Pursat city.. 🤔

After providing a few tips to local enforcement, I was able to add two more trucks to the impound last night, stacked to the sky with timber that has been illegally removed from the Cardamom mountains. 🫡

The timber that was confiscated last night is usually pulled from the areas the villagers set fire to, it gives the wood the appearance of being older, and less prone to enforcement. I have been watching load after load of timber moved from the burnt areas to the collection site

Illegal timber is like Pokemon, you gotta catch 'em all. #3 was found and impounded. Someone is not going to be very happy about this. Considering the local Police charge 50,000R per tractor load from the villagers for "Protection" from the NGO, and no doubt charged these drivers

Back to work on X after realizing that trying to convince Cambodian politicians to actually take action on LinkedIn was a waste of time. Khmer LinkedIn is somewhere between an echo chamber and circle jerk for Cambodia's politicians.

Ministry of Environment releases an app to monitor air quality and has an escalation ladder on actions to take to improve air quality, meanwhile, villagers set the Redd+ Project in Pursat on fire to clear undergrowth to make logging the "Protected Area" easier. 🤔

Squeaky excavator got the grease...when someone says they have tried to clear land 9-10 times without any success, maybe its because its being done illegally? Found this baby banging around the border of the REDD+ hired to secretly remove forest and expand farms.

She left out the part where companies are buying credits that may not exist at all, or in greatly reduced numbers and they are actually actively involved in defrauding large corporations, as the companies defer the due diligence to said 3rd party. 🤔youtube.com/watch?v=PZr3JK…

First time I have ever seen fire fighting in the forest, so many fires to put out, these guys are going to be working non-stop this season, its much drier vs previous yeas and its only going to heat up.