The world relies on Southeast Asia for natural rubber. Seventy percent of the global supply is used to make tires for cars, trucks, and planes. But rubber plantations in Cambodia have displaced thousands of people and caused mass deforestation. Now, Indigenous communities who have been pushed off the land are fighting to get it back.

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