Forests and forestry
Forest protection
Forest activists decry illegal logging
Prey Lang forest activists in Kampong Thom province on Wednesday claimed that illegal logging is continuing unabated, no thanks to local authorities and powerful individuals whom they allege are aiding the perpetrators. While acknowledging that forest clearing still exists in the area, forestry officials claimed the ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/forest-activists-decry-illegal-logging
Boeng Prek Tup project opposed
The Cambodian Youth Party has requested the government reconsider the development of the Boeng Prek Tup lake area in Preah Sihanouk province. More than 16 hectares of Boeng Prek Tup lake was designated as a freshwater conservation area in 2016 by a government sub-decree. The ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50541168/boeng-prek-tup-project-opposed/
Committee to relocate national park villagers
The Ministry of Environment and Siem Reap provincial administration have formed a joint committee to deliberate the relocation of 5,000 people from Kulen Mountain following deforestation in the tourist area. Ministry spokesman Neth Pheaktra said on Sunday that the livelihood of the people affects the ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/committee-relocate-national-park-villagers
Sanctuary chief accused of ‘collusion’
The Koh Kong provincial joint committee will continue its probe into the Dang Paeng Multipurpose Protected Sanctuary after social media posts alleged that mangrove forestland had been cleared in the area with the collusion of sanctuary officials. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sanctuary-chief-accused-collusion
Villagers resolve to depose sanctuary chief
The 1,294 families from Kampong Cham commune in Kratie province’s Sambo district who had filed a complaint demanding the removal of the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary chief is set for an inter-ministerial hearing today. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-resolve-depose-sanctuary-chief
PM to deploy helicopters to monitor illegal logging
Speaking before members of the Cambodian diaspora in the US on Sunday, Prime Minister Hun Sen said he has ordered helicopters to be deployed above forests in the Kingdom to monitor illegal logging activities. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-deploy-helicopters-monitor-illegal-logging
Villagers complain against sanctuary head
The Kampong Cham commune council in Kratie province’s Sambo district is representing 1,294 families to lodge a complaint against Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary head Nhem Visal for abusing villagers and allowing traders to haul timber illegally. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-complain-against-sanctuary-head
Poor migrants caught clearing forest
The Poutil ethnic community members from Busra commune in Mondulkiri province’s Pichreada district handed two men to district police for further action on Thursday, after they allegedly cleared many hectares of forest in their community. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/poor-migrants-caught-clearing-forest
Families protest Srepok forest grab
Some 100 families from Pichreada district’s Pu Chrey commune in Mondulkiri province said a private company continues to clear forest in the Srepok Wildlife Sanctuary even after the authority made the firm sign a contract promising to stop its activities. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/families-protest-srepok-forest-grab
Officials in on illegal timber to VN, claim forest guardians
Forest activists in Ratanakkiri province’s O’yadav district said on Thursday that a group of Cambodian and Vietnamese traders are colluding with officials and transporting timber from their community forest to Vietnam after they had illegally felled trees there early this month. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/officials-illegal-timber-vn-claim-forest-guardians
Sanctuary concessions granted
The ministry’s report, which it shared on its Facebook page, said CRCK II Rubber Development and Bean Heack Investment Co Ltd have been respectively allowed to develop 7,121.78ha and 4,128.66ha within Boeung Pear Wildlife Sanctuary in Kampong Thom province. Following the granting of the concessions, the ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sanctuary-concessions-granted
Millions donated for Prey Lang conservation
The United States Agency for International Development has awarded $21 million to Tetra Tech for the next five years to improve nature conservation and strengthen sustainable development in the Prey Lang region, Tetra Tech said on Tuesday. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50535264/millions-donated-for-prey-lang-conservation/
Buffalo carts, logs seized in Kampong Thom
Authorities from Kampong Thom province’s environmental department seized 11 buffalo carts and 10 logs found at Prey Ang Ten wildlife sanctuary on Wednesday. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/buffalo-carts-logs-seized-kampong-thom
WCS finds endangered stork nests in Keo Seima
The Wildlife Conservation Society has found seven nests of the globally-threatened Lesser Adjutant Stork in Mondulkiri province’s Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary. Sot Vandoeun, WCS’ wildlife monitoring team leader, said on Tuesday that it is the first time that WCS has found the bird’s nest in ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50534472/wcs-finds-endangered-stork-nests-in-keo-seima/
Ratanakkiri forest activist faces logging charge
A forest activist from the ethnic Tumpuon community in Ratanakkiri province’s Lumphat district is set to appear at the Lumphat Wildlife Sanctuary bureau today for questioning over alleged unauthorised logging and forest clearing in the sanctuary. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ratanakkiri-forest-activist-faces-logging-charge
Villagers vow to ‘sacrifice lives’
Some 100 ethnic Banong villagers from Sre Hoy commune’s Chhul and Chhong Pang villages in Mondulkiri province’s Koh Nhek district protested on Tuesday after Srepok Wildlife Sanctuary officials allegedly uprooted wooden posts used to demarcate their ancestral burial sites. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-vow-sacrifice-lives
The Ministry of Environment calls out encroaching
The Ministry of Environment issued a warning on Wednesday against encroachment on protected natural areas following some instances of intruders clearing forest land for personal gain. It cited examples of encroachment in the Ream, Bokor and Kirirom national parks and the multi-purpose Kbal Chay freshwater ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-environment-calls-out-encroaching
Gibbons facing threat
While hunting in the Kingdom’s wildlife sanctuaries has abated, the use of traps have become widespread. That, coupled with deforestation, has caused grave concerns among conservationists who fear the extinction of the endangered yellow-cheeked crested gibbons. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gibbons-facing-threat
Flooded forest illegally cleared in Kampong Chhnang
The Kampong Chhnang provincial department of agriculture, forestry and fishery is working to identify suspects who had mobilised tractors to illegally clear flooded forest in Toek Phos district’s O’krabey Ngob and O’Klong in Chieb communes. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/flooded-forest-illegally-cleared-kampong-chhnang
Mobile app tracks forest crimes
The Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) has recorded 2,926 cases of forestry crimes in four provinces since February 2015, a report it released on Thursday said. It was based on data collected with a novel smartphone app. ...
Phak Seangly
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mobile-app-tracks-forest-crimes
Protected forest land clearing stopped in Koh Kong
Koh Kong provincial authorities detained and educated four people over the clearing of protected forest lands on Monday before releasing them. Deputy Koh Kong Governor Sok Sothy said yesterday that joint authorities cracked down on the land clearing in Koh Kong district. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50530796/protected-forest-land-clearing-stopped-in-koh-kong/
Oddar Meanchey animals threatened
All species of animals in the Sorng Rukhavoan Wildlife Sanctuary are facing danger no thanks to night hunters, despite concerted efforts to stop the crimes, say activists and environment officials. The 30,254-hectare sanctuary spans across the Sorng Rukhavorn and Rattanak Rokha community forests, as well ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/oddar-meanchey-animals-threatened
Group worried over new provinces
Indigenous people in northeastern provinces yesterday raised concern over wildlife sanctuaries that could be affected by the government’s plan to set up new provinces carved out from Mondulkiri province’s Koh Nhek district and Ratanakkiri province’s Lumphat district. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50529911/group-worried-over-new-provinces/
NGOs decry vulture decline
Vultures in the Kingdom are facing an increasingly high risk of extinction as the birds have shown a 50 per cent decline in numbers since the late 2000s, a joint announcement from environmental organisations said on Saturday, quoting a report. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngos-decry-vulture-decline