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From Our Own Correspondent: Cambodia and Peru

Cambodia and Peru

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Insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents Guy de Launey and Javier Lizarzaburu.

Pascale Harter presents despatches from Guy de Launey, explaining why logging can be lethal in Cambodia's forests, and Javier Lizarzaburu, celebrating how Lima is unearthing its Precolombian past.

Pascale Harter introduces insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers from around the world. In this edition:

When an activist falls in the forest
Cambodia's rainforests were once a thick, green landscape, squawking with life but that's now being threatened by illegal loggers and the powerful forces who protect them. The recent killing of eco-campaigner Chut Wutty - a man with a gift for attention-grabbing gestures - has been a brutal reminder of how much is at stake. Guy de Launey remembers this local hero - and the occasion when he had a close call of his own with armed men in the jungle. 

Where the past really was another country
The passing of time can so often change our perspectives on the world around us. Some people revisit the places of their childhood and find them unchanged; for others, they seem suddenly cramped, shrunken or otherwise alien. And if all that can happen just over one lifetime, imagine the distortions which can creep in over centuries. Javier Lizarzaburu recently went back to Lima, the city of his youth - and was heartened to learn of the ancient city that's been re-emerging from underneath its modern landscape.

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