Environment and natural resources
Forests and forestry
Officers raid wood workshops
Anti-economic crime officers from Kampong Speu provincial police and Thporng district forces have uncovered eight unlicensed wood workshops as part of an effort to clamp down on forestry crime. District police chief Hun Sok Hon said the crackdown would be ongoing throughout his district until all ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50108950/officers-raid-woodwork-shops/
Thais detain two Cambodian loggers
Two Cambodians and a Thai national were arrested by Thai soldiers on Tuesday night for illegal logging and transporting rosewood over the border to Cambodia’s Oddar Meanchey province. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50108947/thais-detain-two-cambodian-loggers/
Killings fail to deter WCS
The Wildlife Conservation Society has said it is committed to continue working with the authorities and other partners to protect Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary after three conservationists, including one WCS staff member were killed last month. Tern Soknai, a forest ranger with the Environment Ministry, Sek ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50108637/killings-fail-to-deter-wcs/
Prey Lang ceremony due next month
Nearly 400 members of the Prey Lang Community Network will hold the annual Prey Lang ceremony in late March to commemorate and preserve indigenous identities and promote the forest’s potential. Meanwhile, Prey Lang activists have claimed illegal logging still exists in the area, even though the ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50108639/prey-lang-ceremony-due-next-month/
Development plans for Koh Rong and nearby islands unchanged by marine park
Businesses expect the establishment of Cambodia’s first marine national park covering seven coastal islands to boost tourism in the area, while government officials said yesterday it would not affect private development scheduled for the islands. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/development-plans-koh-rong-and-nearby-islands-unchanged-marine-park
First marine national park established in Koh Rong
The government announced last week the establishment of the country’s first marine national park, the Koh Rong National Park, which covers the Koh Rong archipelago off the coast of Sihanoukville. The new national park, set up by a sub-decree signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen, aims ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50108066/first-marine-national-park-established-koh-rong/
Are Disney's Cambodian carbon credits a fantasy?
The killing of three conservationists patrolling Cambodia’s biggest carbon credit project exposes the nearly insurmountable conflicts of interest plaguing schemes in which huge corporations such as Disney and Virgin Atlantic have invested millions of dollars, observers say. Military Police Officer Sek Wathana, Environment Ministry Ranger Teurn ...
David Boyle and Sun Narin
https://www.voanews.com/a/are-disney-cambodian-carbon-credits-a-fantasy/4247348.html
Still no action taken on threatening of forest patroller
Forest patrollers and rights groups are questioning why the Oddar Meanchey Forestry Administration has yet to take action after a soldier transporting illegal timber allegedly beat and threatened to kill a patroller last month. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/still-no-action-taken-threatening-forest-patroller
First marine national park is established for Koh Rong
Cambodia’s first marine national park was established yesterday, seemingly replacing and expanding upon a marine protection area established for the Koh Rong archipelago in 2016. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/first-marine-national-park-established-koh-rong
Timber seized in Kampong Speu province
Kampong Speu provincial anti-economic crime police and Thporng district police yesterday morning seized six tractor loads of timber being smuggled out of the Phnom Oral Sanctuary. Kim Yon, deputy district police chief, said six homemade tractors were caught transporting the wood from the area. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50107093/timber-seized-kampong-speu-province/
Rise in timber exports to Vietnam
The value of logs and sawn wood exported from Cambodia to Vietnam last year increased by about $31.5 million compared to 2016, customs data has shown. The Vietnamese data, obtained by Khmer Times yesterday, said about 163,071 cubic metres of Cambodian logs were imported to the ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50107116/rise-timber-exports-vietnam/
UN help sought in land dispute
Human rights representatives from NGO Adhoc and the United Nations have been asked to intervene in a land dispute between villagers and an army lieutenant they say was granted a land title illegally inside a protected community forest in Oddar Meanchey province. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/un-help-sought-land-dispute
Police raid wood workshop hidden in forest
Kampong Thom provincial police raided a wood workshop hidden in the forest in Sandan district on Sunday morning. District police chief Oung Maly said the workshop was built illegally and had no licence for operation. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50106692/police-raid-wood-workshop-hidden-forest/
Court charges Vietnamese man for clearing forest land
A 55-year-old Vietnamese man was charged by Kampong Thom Provincial Court yesterday for illegally clearing more than six hectares of land in a protected forest. Provincial military police officer Keo Savoeun identified the suspect as Nguyen Duc Nhan, an excavator driver for a Vietnamese rubber plantation ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50106504/court-charges-vietnamese-man-clearing-forest-land/
Timber seized in raids in Ratanakkiri, Kratie
Authorities in Ratanakkiri’s Lumphat Wildlife Sanctuary seized a stockpile of first- and second-grade luxury timber on Saturday, while a truck hauling wood was intercepted by authorities in Kratie province in the early hours of yesterday morning. No arrests have been made in either case, authorities ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/timber-seized-raids-ratanakkiri-kratie
Five more held for shooting forest patrollers in Mondulkiri
Five more suspects have been arrested and are being interrogated by authorities in relation to the murder of three forest patrollers last Tuesday in Mondulkiri’s Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary, authorities confirmed yesterday. ...
Mech Dara and Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/five-more-held-shooting-forest-patrollers-mondulkiri
One held over forest shooting
Police in Mondulkiri province yesterday arrested a military officer who is a suspect in a shooting that killed three people during an operation to crack down on illegal logging. ...
Khuon Narim
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50106106/one-held-over-forest-shooting/
Military official arrested over shootout which killed three
Police in Mondulkiri province have arrested a military official who is a suspect in a shootout which killed three people during an operation to crack down on illegal logging. ...
Cheang Sokha
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50105822/military-official-arrested-over-shootout-which-killed-three/
Search on for Mondulkiri forestry patrol’s killers
As authorities yesterday searched for officials suspected of killing three forestry patrollers in a brazen ambush near Mondulkiri’s border with Vietnam, families, friends and colleagues struggled to make sense of the sudden deaths of their loved ones. ...
Kong Meta, Mech Dara and Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/search-mondulkiri-forestry-patrols-killers
Soldiers ‘attack’ patrollers for confiscating timber
A Royal Cambodian Armed Forces member, backed up by seven of his fellow soldiers, allegedly attacked a community forest patroller and threatened to set him and his family on fire for confiscating illegal timber, according to the patroller. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/soldiers-attack-patrollers-confiscating-timber
Breaking: Three killed while on forestry patrol in Mondulkiri
An Environment Ministry ranger, a Military Police officer and an employee of a conservation organisation have been killed in a shootout with other Cambodian authorities near Mondulkiri’s border with Vietnam. ...
Mech Dara and Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/breaking-three-killed-while-forestry-patrol-mondulkiri
Military officer arrested for transporting luxury wood
Tbong Khmum province police on Sunday arrested a man carrying both journalist and military credentials for allegedly illegally transporting rosewood, police said. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/military-officer-arrested-transporting-luxury-wood
Carrion the torch: Rare vultures discovered
Three nests belonging to critically endangered red-headed vultures are being guarded day and night to ensure their survival after they were discovered earlier this month at Preah Vihear’s Chheb Wildlife Sanctuary, according to a spokesman with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). Spokesman Eng Mengey said ...
Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/carrion-torch-rare-vultures-discovered
Inside the criminal network ravaging Cambodia’s forests ― and the community fighting to save them
These illicit networks have had devastating ramifications in Cambodia, where rural poor and indigenous communities have relied on forested areas as a vital source of income for thousands of years. With one of the highest rates of tree cover loss in the world, the country saw nearly 2 million hectares, ...
Jesselyn Cook
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cambodia-forest-devastation_us_5a3d86b0e4b06d1621b45772