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Gerry Flynn

@geraldrflynn

Journalist in #Thailand for @mongabay

Formerly in Cambodia (2019-2025) - no longer welcome there after years of covering environmental crime...
Bangkok muckrack.com/gerald-flynn Joined June 2013
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1. The first in my series on illegal logging in #Cambodia for @mongabay and @Rainforest_RIN ties a senior Prisons Dept. official to a series of timber grabs dating back to 2013, but his latest concession in Stung Treng jeopardizes a newly protected forest

news.mongabay.com/2023/03/logged…
news.mongabay.com Logged and loaded: Cambodian prison official suspected in massive legalized logging operation This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Rainforest Investigations Network where Gerald Flynn is a fellow.   SIEM PANG, Cambodia — “Us locals cannot source benefits from the forest anymore,...
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An uncharacteristically damning assessment from @CITES on #Cambodia's much maligned monkey trade, less than 2 years since the global wildlife trade regulator nearly banned Cambodia from exporting long-tailed macaques due to widespread corruption and fraud

news.mongabay.com/2026/10/cambod…
news.mongabay.com Cambodia was told to clean up its monkey trade. Regulators say it still hasn’t CHIANG MAI, Thailand — Global wildlife trade authorities say Cambodia has made little progress in cleaning up its monkey export industry, a year after the country was flagged as needing major reforms...
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The 1st in our series on river pollution in Myanmar and Thailand - and the murky mineral trade that's fueling it - looks at Thai companies buying critical minerals from the very Myanmar mines that have polluted rivers across Thailand, inc. the Mekong 👀

news.mongabay.com/2026/10/myanma…
news.mongabay.com Myanmar’s polluting mines selling to China through Thai companies UMPHANG, Thailand — At 8 a.m. on June 26, at least 13 double-trailer trucks were lined up at the Pheung Khleung border crossing in northern Thailand — one of the few places where minerals can be...
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Even as deforestation slowed across the Mekong, the region collectively lost an area of forest roughly the size of Bangkok Metro Area - or 10X the size of Singapore.

My latest for Mongabay digs into the data behind declining deforestation rates in SEA.

news.mongabay.com/2026/09/despit…
news.mongabay.com Despite a drop in deforestation in 2025, forest losses pile up in the Mekong BANGKOK — Over the course of 2025, the Mekong countries of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam lost a combined 746,168 hectares (1.8 million acres) of tree cover, an area roughly equivalent...