Forests and forestry

Forest protection

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

Ministry of Environment celebrates achievements

The ministry said it had introduced a number of environmental procedures, rules and guidelines to protect, promote and manage environmental issues, and cited major laws such as the 1996 Law on Environmental and Natural Resource Management and the 2008 Law on Natural Protected Areas. The ministry ...

Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-environment-celebrates-achievements

Endangered birds spotted in sanctuaries

Nests of five critically endangered bird species were found in the Siem Pang and Siem Pang Kang Lech wildlife sanctuaries last year, according to an annual report issued yesterday by Birdlife International Cambodia. ...

Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50564942/endangered-birds-spotted-in-sanctuaries/

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

Rangers prepare incitement action against ‘armed mob’

Environmental rangers in Preah Vihear’s Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary are preparing to file a complaint against 15 people for inciting an armed mob of villagers on Saturday to “liberate” three rice tractors impounded at an environmental office. ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rangers-prepare-incitement-action-against-armed-mob

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

Preah Vihear parks see clearing

Forest rangers and the Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) said on Tuesday that forest in the Phnom Tnort-Phnom Pok and Prey Lang wildlife sanctuaries in Preah Vihear province are being cleared by groups of perpetrators from Kampong Thom, Kampong Cham, Siem Reap and Battambang provinces. ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-vihear-parks-see-clearing

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/

Preah Sihanouk governor orders firm to end activities in national park

Preah Sihanouk provincial governor Yun Min has ordered a local company to cease all development in the Prek Koh Khyong area within the Ream National Park, which the firm plans to turn into a tourist attraction. ...

Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-sihanouk-governor-orders-firm-end-activities-national-park

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

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

Ministry urges greater youth participation in forest protection

The Environment Ministry is urging people, especially youth, to take part in the protection of forests and natural resources as the government is lacking manpower and equipment. Kong Siek Ly, director of the community living department at the ministry, said on Saturday that a total ...

Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50555320/ministry-urges-greater-youth-participation-in-forest-protection/

Villagers denied Kirirom land titles

Kampong Speu provincial governor Vei Samnang rejected villagers’ request on Sunday for 250ha of land within the Kirirom National Park in Phnom Sruoch district on grounds that the park has been designated a protected area by a royal decree. ...

Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-denied-kirirom-land-titles

Kampong Thom wetland picked as the latest Ramsar Site

The Stung Sen wetland has become the Kingdom’s latest Ramsar Site, said the Ministry of Environment. The seasonally-flooded 9,293ha freshwater swamp, located along the southeastern edge of the Tonle Sap great lake in Kampong Thom province, was declared Cambodia’s fifth Ramsar Site on Friday under ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kampong-thom-wetland-picked-latest-ramsar-site

Forestry, wildlife crimes drop at Koh Kong sanctuary

Koh Kong provincial authorities said on Sunday that illegal forestry and wildlife trafficking crimes have decreased considerably at the Peam Krasop Wildlife Sanctuary, although authorities are still investigating cases of encroachment on state land at the site. ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/forestry-wildlife-crimes-drop-koh-kong-sanctuary

Agriculture Ministry asks FAO for support

The Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Veng Sakhon on Wednesday asked the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) for financial and technical support to improve the living standards of local communities that still rely on fishery and forestry products for a living. ...

Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/agriculture-ministry-asks-fao-support

‘At a loss’ over land clearance

The authorities are at a loss over who had cleared and demarcated more than 50ha of mangrove forests in Village I, Tumnob Rolok commune, Stung Hav district, in Preah Sihanouk province. Kim Hak, who heads the community protecting the flooded Tumnob Rolok forest and the ...

Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/loss-over-land-clearance

Give back grabbed land in national park: Ministry

The Environment Ministry on Friday ordered all those who have illegally grabbed land in Preah Suramarit-Kossamak National Park to immediately tear down their structures and give the land back to the government. ...

Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50544868/give-back-grabbed-land-in-national-park-ministry/

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/

Chainsaws, tents found at Prey Lang sanctuary

The Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) representative in Kampong Thom province, Sok Plok told The Post that his team had found and seized a number of chainsaws and tents left behind by loggers in the forest. ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chainsaws-tents-found-prey-lang-sanctuary

Ratanakkiri gov’t to ban land sale in protected areas

While the Ratanakkiri provincial administration will not recognise illegal land transactions in the province’s protected areas, an NGO says its action is not effective and forest crimes continue unabated. The administration’s letter dated October 19 and obtained by The Post on Monday came after Minister ...

Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ratanakkiri-govt-ban-land-sale-protected-areas

Kratie to have two more wildlife sanctuaries

The government is creating two more wildlife sanctuaries, totalling more than 60,000 hectares, in Kratie province to further preserve natural resources, mitigate climate change and reduce the risk of natural disasters. ...

Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50542728/kratie-to-have-two-more-wildlife-sanctuaries/

Four jailed for illegal logging

Four suspects were jailed Thursday for illegally harvesting luxury timber from a protected forest in Mondulkiri province’s Koh Nhek district, a court official said yesterday. Morm Vanda, a provincial court spokesman, yesterday said the four were jailed after being suspected of illegal logging in a ...

Pav Suy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50542461/four-jailed-for-illegal-logging/

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