Forests and forestry

Forest protection

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

M’kiri villagers seize wood from rubber firm

Villagers in Mondolkiri province this week seized four trucks transporting luxury-grade timber out of a plantation they accuse of logging outside its government-granted land concession and turned the haul over to local authorities. The ethnic minority Banong villagers accuse Villa Development, which owns a local rubber ...

Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/mkiri-villagers-seize-wood-from-rubber-firm-66002/

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/

Ministry vows to take some ELC land back

Amid promises reiterated by the government yesterday that it will take a tougher stance on economic land concessions, logging tycoon Try Pheap minimally reduced his sweeping natural resource empire, returning more than 20,000 hectares of undeveloped forestry. It was unclear what kind of arrangement prompted Pheap ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-vows-take-some-elc-land-back

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

Police officer charged with intentional killing

Mondolkiri Provincial Court charged a national police officer with intentional killing on Friday, the latest in an increasing trend of violent disputes over timber in the restive province. Pheng Sokheng, who was sent to the Seima Protected Forest to stifle the work of illegal loggers, on ...

Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-officer-charged-with-intentional-killing-63908/

Military police officer accused

A military police officer has been arrested and will be sent to court, while two others remain under questioning, after an unarmed man was shot dead on Wednesday night while travelling in a car through protected forest in Mondulkiri’s O’Raing district, officials said. Two military police ...

Sen David and Amelia Woodside
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/military-police-officer-accused

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

Ethnic activists targets of arrest, threats: NGO

More than 100 ethnic minority activists trying to protect community forests have been arrested, jailed, threatened and subjected to violence so far this year, a major local rights group has said. In a statement released yesterday, Adhoc condemned the “discriminatory” treatment of indigenous people who have ...

May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ethnic-activists-targets-arrest-threats-ngo

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