I could use some Portuguese sunshine at the moment, this place feels more like Ireland the last few months. I think in the future the flooding can only get more extreme the illegal logging, there will be less and less roots to soak up the water in the mountains above us. This is the last forest of Cambodia, and the rate at which it is being destroyed is shocking. I just learned the "mreah prew" tree's oil is the main ingredient in ecstasy, and that cutting the tree or making oil from are all illegal in Cambodia, and it's nearly an extinct species. People in this village have dinner tables made from these trees because it's all soldiers here, nobody gonna stop them. Crazy to think somewhere on the mountainside a Vietnamese crime syndicate is overseeing the production of safrole to smuggle to Holland, a few online docs about it. Ecstacy Forest blew my mind, probably filmed somewhere close to us.
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