Chut Wutty began a career in conservation fifteen years ago, helping to launch the Central Cardamom Protected Forest in 2002 after leaving the army. From there he went on to found the Natural Resource Protection Group, a small-scale grass roots NGO that survived off minimal funding, yet was able to draw significant media attention to the destruction of forests all over the country.
 
A friend of Chut Wutty, conservationist and researcher Dr Sarah Milne, called him "a true eco-warrior, who gave courage and inspiration to many people".
 
He was killed in Koh Kong province, in the south-west of Cambodia, while documenting the illegal logging that is decimating forests across the Mekong. Wutty was 48