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Video: Western Banks Financing Illegal Logging in Southeast Asia

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May 13, 2013

As land becomes scarce in Vietnam, Vietnamese rubber companies have begun grabbing land in Cambodia and Laos, clearing great swaths of forest and farmland for rubber plantations, The Guardian reports in this video. The anti-corruption group Global Witness alleges that western banks are funding these land grabs, which are displacing small farmers and villagers.

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