Environment and natural resources

Environmental and biodiversity protection

Trucks with luxury-wood haul crash into roadblock

Two large trucks carrying 60 cubic meters of luxury wood were confiscated on Saturday after their drivers unsuccessfully attempted to barge through a roadblock of cars set up by the Forestry Administration in Kompong Cham province, officials said. ...

Saing Soenthrith
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/trucks-with-luxury-wood-haul-crash-into-roadblock-71626/

More than 3,000 luxury logs found in wildlife sanctuary

Police and environment officers in Mondolkiri province on Sunday confiscated more than 3,000 lengths of luxury-grade timber found inside a wildlife sanctuary but have yet to determine if it belongs to a Chinese company with a land concession in the area. ...

Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/more-than-3000-luxury-logs-found-in-wildlife-sanctuary-70532/

Ratanakkiri trappers accuse rangers of extortion

Representatives of an ethnic Tompoun community in Ratanakkiri province filed two separate complaints with local authorities last week accusing a group of five environment department officials of extortion after the officials allegedly caught the minority villagers trapping illegally in a wildlife sanctuary and asked for ...

Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ratanakkiri-trappers-accuse-rangers-of-extortion-69770/

Illegal mining op halted in preserve

Pailin provincial authorities are searching for a suspect who allegedly commissioned the excavation of a gold mine on land the protection of which is funded by the foundation of American actress Angelina Jolie. Provincial environmental police are holding three men at a spot where they were ...

Phak Seangly
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/illegal-mining-op-halted-preserve

Shock and awe as yellow-bellied weasel found in Cambodia

British conservation group Fauna & Flora International says it has captured the first image of a yellow-bellied weasel in Cambodia under a joint initiative with Oxford University. In a statement released Wednesday, the group said researchers led by FFI field biologist Channa Phan were conducting a ...

The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=ODkwYzM0ZDU2ZjA

Dolphin found dead

The body of a 100-kilogram Irrawaddy dolphin from Cambodia was found dead in Vietnamese territory and repatriated to its home waters yesterday, officials said. Im Phat, deputy chief of the Fishery Administration in Takeo province’s Angkor Borei district, said two endangered freshwater Irrawaddy dolphins – fewer ...

Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dolphin-found-dead-0

Wildlife group raises alarm over Asia's bear trade

At least 2,800 bears in Asia were traded for their parts over the past decade, according to a report issued Thursday by an anti-wildlife trafficking group. The figure was arrived at after analysing nearly 700 bear-related seizures, and it likely represents a fraction of the overall ...

The Nation News Staff
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/Wildlife-group-raises-alarm-over-Asias-bear-trade-30241431.html

Vulture decline recorded in Cambodia

An annual vulture census carried out across Cambodia has recorded the second lowest population estimate for ten years. The new figures follow a major vulture poisoning incident that occurred in Cambodia’s Mondulkiri Protected Forest back in february when 13 vultures were found dead. This is the largest ...

Wildlife Extra News Staff
http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news/Cambodia-vultures-014.html#cr

Apsara says it is dealing with Angkor pollution

The destructive threat posed to Angkor Wat by pollution is being taken seriously, the Apsara Authority said in a statement it released Friday in response to recent media coverage of the issue. Responding to an article initially published by GlobalPost under the headline “In Cambodia, toxic ...

Holly Robertson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/apsara-says-it-is-dealing-with-angkor-pollution-65046/

Villagers in court: Prey Lang land activists deny charge

Forest activists accused of destroying private property told a court hearing in Kampong Thom province yesterday that they were acting to protect mainland Southeast Asia’s largest evergreen forest from illegal logging. ...

Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-court-prey-lang-land-activists-deny-charge

Fine dining ups bird count

Over the past six months, 19 “vulture restaurants” have led to a slight rise in the number of the birds spotted in Cambodia, according to a recent Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries report. Contrary to the name’s sound, the vultures aren’t the dish being served ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fine-dining-ups-bird-count

A ride worth the weight

North of the Sesan River, in protected forests that stretch to the border with Laos and Vietnam, illegal timber traders describe a network of bribery that leaves them counting their riels, despite the multimillion-dollar nature of the industry. In contrast to the large flat-bed trucks owned ...

May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ride-worth-weight

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