Environment and natural resources

Dam concerns sent to Subedi

Special Rapporteur Surya Subedi has been called on to investigate and seek justice for human rights violations caused by the development of two large-scale hydropower dams in Cambodia. ...

Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dam-concerns-sent-subedi

Station razed, fight goes on

Members of a community in Preah Vihear province chased down a group of illegal loggers and briefly detained one of them yesterday, less than a week after the community accused the local wildlife sanctuary director of destroying their patrol station. ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/station-razed-fight-goes

Military police find stash of illegal wood on passenger bus

Authorities in Oddar Meanchey province found a haul of valuable luxury wood inside the luggage compartment of a passenger bus on Friday, but let the driver go although he later admitted to smuggling the wood. Chongkal district military police chief Un Kimseng said the Rith Mony ...

Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/military-police-find-stash-of-illegal-wood-on-passenger-bus-75827/

What lies beneath: The fight to save Phnom Kulen

Illegal logging and destructive farming practices have archaeologists racing to rescue an ecologically crucial mountain and its hidden temples. Some 80 per cent of the forest on Phnom Kulen – one of Cambodia’s National Parks – has disappeared due to a combination of illegal logging, ...

Poppy McPherson and Vandy Muong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/what-lies-beneath-fight-save-phnom-kulen

Natural disaster deaths decline

Last year saw a 70 per cent drop in fatalities caused by natural disasters compared with 2013, the government’s National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM) said yesterday. ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/natural-disaster-deaths-decline

Police seize wood destined for brigade commander’s office

Police in Kandal province on Tuesday confiscated a haul of wood, including a few pieces of precious rosewood, that was being unlawfully transported to Phnom Penh by the military for the construction of a Brigade 90 commander’s office. The commander has appealed to Royal Cambodian Armed ...

Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-seize-wood-destined-for-brigade-commanders-office-75600/

Police confiscate illegal wood, say forestry official a suspect

Police in Stung Treng province confiscated a truckload of illegally logged wood on Sunday and are investigating a Forestry Administration official who tried to take the haul off their hands following the seizure. ...

Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-confiscate-illegal-wood-say-forestry-official-a-suspect-74728/

Fear motivating relocation

Deep in the forest, about an hour from Stung Treng’s provincial capital through a rough and difficult road, just over half of the houses in an ethnic minority village have been tagged with bright orange spray paint saying, “LSS2”. According to a 2010 environmental impact ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fear-motivating-relocation

Korea, Cambodia team up to tackle deforestation

The Korea Forest Service on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding with Cambodia to prevent deforestation and degradation in the Southeast Asian country, government officials said Thursday. Under the MOU, the two countries will cooperate on United Nations-led REDD+ programs ― standing for Reducing Emissions from ...

Suk Gee-hyun
http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20141211000956

Capital tipped for ‘resilient city’ program

Phom Penh was selected on Wednesday as one of 35 cities joining a $100 million “resiliency” program meant to strengthen urban centres’ abilities to respond to shocks and stresses, including climate change, natural disasters, pollution and resource scarcity. “The intense growth occurring and projected for ...

Laignee Barron, Sarah Taguiam and Taing Vida
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/capital-tipped-%E2%80%98resilient-city%E2%80%99-program

Angkor Gold announces next step forward for Cambodia's first commercial gold mine

ANGKOR GOLD CORP. (ANK) (“ANGKOR” or “ANGKOR GOLD”) announces that approval from Cambodia’s Ministry of Mines and Energy has been received to proceed with an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) on Cambodia’s first royalty-generating gold mine at Phum Syarung. The total area of 12 sq km ...

Market Watch News Staff
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/angkor-gold-announces-next-step-forward-for-cambodias-first-commercial-gold-mine-2014-12-03?reflink=MW_news_stmp

Python reported on the loose in Cambodian capital

A python escaped from the house of a government official and is on the loose in the Cambodian capital, a local newspaper reported Monday. It is the second such serpent to escape from the Phnom Penh home of Nhim Vanda, the first vice chairman of Cambodia’s ...

The New Age News Staff
http://www.thenewage.co.za/144803-1019-53-Python_reported_on_the_loose_in_Cambodian_capital

Trade in otter skins is booming: report

High prices and lax law enforcement have created a booming transnational trade in otter skins, where the endangered mammals are hunted in the wild to be sold on to buyers in neighbouring countries, according to a new report. ...

Daniel Pye
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/trade-otter-skins-booming-report

NGOs urge UN states to set climate targets

Citing Cambodia’s vulnerability to climate change, civil society groups have called for global responses to the issue as the United Nations prepares for its annual climate change convention in Lima, Peru. ...

Shane Worrell
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/ngos-urge-un-states-set-climate-targets

Police officer killed in crash, timber falls out

A 25-year-old police officer in Mondulkiri’s Sen Monorom commune was killed in a car crash while transporting timber to sell in a nearby district on Sunday, police and authorities confirmed yesterday. Un Sokim was driving a Toyota Camry sedan loaded with timber to Keo Seima district ...

Phak Seangly
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/police-officer-killed-crash-timber-falls-out

Carbon credits a tough sell

Despite one success story emerging in the trade of Cambodia-generated carbon credits, immediate prospects for the environmental trading scheme in Kingdom remain few. Securing buyers of carbon credits for Cambodian projects is a well-known difficulty. Pact, however, left the project in July 2013 when the ...

Eddie Morton
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/carbon-credits-tough-sell

Cambodian capital's only working elephant to retire in jungle

Phnom Penh’s only working elephant was blessed by a crowd of chanting Buddhist monks on Tuesday (Nov 25) as she prepared for a life of comfortable jungle retirement after three decades of giving rides to tourists. Sambo’s new home will be an ecotourism venture – ...

Channel News Asia Staff
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/lifestyle/cambodian-capital-s-only/1493254.html

Conservationists ask minister to take action

A group of conservationists in Kratie province submitted on Friday a formal request asking Defence Minister Tea Banh to discipline two Kratie-based military commanders. They accuse the officers of profiting from illegal logging and threatening to kill an activist should he continue his work. ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/conservationists-ask-minister-take-action

Massive luxury timber haul in Mondulkiri

Forestry Administration officials in Mondulkiri province are on the lookout for illegal loggers, after finding 130 pieces of luxury-grade timber in Koh Nhek district. The find comes on the heels of 3,221 pieces of timber found in Mondulkiri’s Pech Chreada district last month. ...

Phak Seangly
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/massive-luxury-timber-haul-mondulkiri

CNRP lawmaker to visit site of proposed dam

Opposition CNRP lawmaker Pol Ham on Monday said he will visit the site of a proposed hydropower dam in Koh Kong province on Monday with colleagues from his parliamentary commission before they quiz government officials about the controversial project later this month. If built, the 108-megawatt ...

Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-lawmaker-to-visit-site-of-proposed-dam-72038/

Prey Lang activists say logger ‘connected’

Members of a conservation group in Kampong Thom province stopped a van carrying illegal timber on Sunday night only to be threatened by a man claiming to be the nephew of a powerful National Assembly parliamentarian. The van was driving with no licence plate and was ...

Taing Vida
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/prey-lang-activists-say-logger-%E2%80%98connected%E2%80%99

Cache of luxury wood on riverbank seized

Authorities in Stung Treng province confiscated more than 100 pieces of illegal luxury-grade wood stockpiled on the bank of the Mekong River Saturday, officials said Sunday. ...

Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cache-of-luxury-wood-on-riverbank-seized-71943/

Bear-cub rescues lift tally to nine in 2014

Nine sun bear cubs have been rescued in the first 10 months of this year, according to the Phnom Penh office of NGO Wildlife Alliance. The cubs, some as young as two weeks, were saved by government rangers and the NGO’s Wildlife Rapid Rescue Team (WRRT), ...

Phak Seangly
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/bear-cub-rescues-lift-tally-nine-2014

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