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Luxury logs seized in Mondulkiri province

A total of 30 logs harvested from high-quality wood were seized by Mondulkiri provincial Military Police and National Military Police on Saturday and Sunday. Provincial Military Police investigation department head Phok Chanthy told The Post on Monday that the logs were found in Pech Chreada ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/luxury-logs-seized-mondulkiri-province

PM hits back at environmental activists over logging criticisms

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday responded to environmental activists who accused the government of inaction over deforestation in Cambodia, saying they themselves used luxury wood to build and decorate their own homes. Speaking at the opening ceremony of Phnom Penh’s third ring road, the ...

Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-hits-back-environmental-activists-over-logging-criticisms

Forest activists issue damning report of logging at Prey Lang

Activist groups from four provinces jointly published a report showing that 41 per cent of new tree stumps at the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary that was recorded over the last two years were the result of illegal logging. The 7th Prey Lang Monitoring Report by ...

Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/forest-activists-issue-damning-report-logging-prey-lang

Ministry institutes new permanent secretariat to prevent forest crimes

A forestry administration spokesman on Thursday said the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries had recently created a new permanent secretariat to prevent all types of forestry crimes, with a particular focus on illegal rosewood trading. ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-institutes-new-permanent-secretariat-prevent-forest-crimes

NGO to probe illegal logging

A prominent forest activist based in Kampong Speu province is set to launch a field investigation into alleged illegal logging at the Phnom Oral and Phnom Kravanh wildlife sanctuaries despite “threats of arrest” by rangers and military officers in the area. ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngo-probe-illegal-logging

Four Pursat men arrested with timber released on bail

Four men were granted bail by Pursat provincial court on Saturday after they were caught illegally transporting 11 timber logs in Phnom Kravanh district on Thursday. Provincial Department of Agriculture director Lay Visith on Sunday said provincial forestry administration officials sent the four to court ...

Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/four-pursat-men-arrested-timber-released-bail

‘Defamed’ Korean company denies Prey Lang illegal logging claims

The Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) has alleged that Korean-owned Think Biotech (Cambodia) Co Ltd is illegally harvesting timber from resin trees in the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary. But a company representative refuted the claim and accused the community of making up rumours to defame ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/defamed-korean-company-denies-prey-lang-illegal-logging-claims

Luxury timber driver flees scene of crash

The driver of a van loaded with luxury timber fled the scene after crashing into traffic signs at Phnom Penh Autonomous Port on Tuesday. ...

Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/luxury-timber-driver-flees-scene-crash

Illegal logging claims refuted

Forest activists in Battambang province’s Samlot district said on Thursday that a company that has received an economic land concession (ELC) in the area is trading timber from outside its ELC boundary. ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/illegal-logging-claims-refuted

Report outlines Prey Lang loggers

At least 73 people were detained this year and handed over to the environment authority by the Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) for clearing forest in the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary, a huge nature reserve in northern Cambodia spanning four provinces.​ ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/report-outlines-prey-lang-loggers

Forest activists face ‘incitement’ probe

A senior rights group official and eight ethnic community members were questioned by a Ratanakkiri provincial court prosecutor on Tuesday over alleged incitement to forestry crimes. ...

Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/forest-activists-face-incitement-probe

Cambodian, Vietnamese police meet to discuss forestry crimes

Cambodian and Vietnamese police officials met on Sunday to discuss forestry crime prevention along the border between both countries in Mondulkiri province. ...

Khy Sovuthy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50562632/cambodian-vietnamese-police-meet-to-discuss-forestry-crimes/

Sanctuary rangers impound timber

Environmental rangers on Monday seized a pile of timber hidden in the forest behind a house in Pou Chrei commune’s Me Pai village in Mondulkiri province’s Pech Chreada district following reports from villagers. ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sanctuary-rangers-impound-timber

Preah Vihear court takes legal action against three illegal loggers

Preah Vihear provincial court is taking action against three suspects for illegal forest clearing in Prey Lang and Boeung Per Wildlife Sanctuaries and death threats following a complaint from a team of park rangers and the Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) on Tuesday, according to ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-vihear-court-takes-legal-action-against-three-illegal-loggers

Kratie military police question illegal loggers

Kratie provincial court granted Military Police permission to bring two suspects involved with operating an illegal charcoal kiln back to a provincial military police base on Sunday for further questioning. ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kratie-military-police-question-illegal-loggers

Loggers detained in wildlife sanctuary

Rangers and officials from the Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) detained 12 loggers and confiscated seven chainsaws and three cubic meters of timber in Kampong Thom province’s Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary. ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/loggers-detained-wildlife-sanctuary

Illegal logging continues unabated in Cambodia

Foresty crimes continue unabated in the Kingdom. This week alone, two crackdowns on illegal logging took place in Ratanakkiri and Oddar Meanchey provinces. Authorities on Wednesday uncovered and seized dozens of timber from illegally-felled first-grade woods in Ratanakkiri province, following a tip from the locals. ...

Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/illegal-logging-continues-unabated-cambodia

Sar Kheng chastises border authorities over illegal logging

Interior Minister Sar Kheng has blamed local officials posted along the Cambodian-Thai border for failing to curb the flow of illegal loggers sneaking across the border to cut down trees in Thailand. Mr Kheng said on Saturday in Oddar Meanchey province that up to 100 Cambodian ...

Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50551911/sar-kheng-chastises-border-authorities-over-illegal-logging/

‘Mondulkiri rife with forest crimes’

A truck transporting timber overturned on Thursday evening, killing one person and injured another. The incident at Sen Monorom commune, in Mondulkiri province’s O’Raing district, has added spark to the ongoing debate on forest crimes in the province. The province’s traffic police bureau director Yoem ...

Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mondulkiri-rife-forest-crimes

Smugglers move timber from Cambodia's Mondulkiri, defying government warnings

Smugglers working in collusion with corrupt officials on both sides of the border are continuing to move illegally harvested timber from Cambodia’s Mondulkiri province into neighboring Vietnam in spite of government warnings to halt the trade, sources in Cambodia say. ...

Richard Finney
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/logging-10312018161613.html

Kingdom, Vietnam to bolster cooperation in combating illicit trades

Cambodia and Vietnam are seeking better cooperation to combat the illicit timber and wildlife trades, following a meeting between the two countries’ forestry administrations last week. The Agriculture Ministry’s forestry administration deputy director Chan Ponika said a number of officials, including him, participated in the ...

Kong Meta
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kingdom-vietnam-bolster-cooperation-combating-illicit-trades

EU-Vietnam timber deal discussed

Cambodian and Vietnamese officials on Monday began a five-day conference to discuss timber trade management, including an incoming trade deal between Vietnam and the European Union that has been decried by environmentalists. ...

aing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50543866/eu-vietnam-timber-deal-discussed/

More than 100 logs found in forest

A district military police deputy commander yesterday said the logs are being transported to the district military police headquarters for further action. “They were seized after local residents reported finding them while they were walking through the forest,” he said. “We are collecting the logs ...

Pav Suy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50543691/more-than-100-logs-found-in-forest/

Stung Treng Provincal Hall rebukes forestry crime criticism

Stung Treng provincial officials have urged local authorities to continue cooperating to crack down on forestry crimes following some negative posts on social media. A statement from the Provincal Hall on Monday urged people to stop posting false information about steps taken to stop forestry ...

Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50543689/stung-treng-provincal-hall-rebukes-forestry-crime-criticism/

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