Environment and natural resources

The Ministry of Environment signed an agreement to protect Cambodia’s marine environment and biodiversity. ...

Wildlife Alliance rangers have removed more than 19,000 snares at the Cardamom mountain for the first nine months of this year. ...

Flash floods in Battambang province are finished but the water inundated land and homes from Rokha Kiri district to Mong Russei district affecting nearly 500 houses and damaging about 600 hectares of rice fields. ...

A group of 85 civil society organisations (CSOs)and associations have asked the government to release representatives of land communities and other forest, natural resource and environment activists who have all recently been detained. ...

A group of 10 civil society organisations (CSOs) applauded Minister of Environment Say Samal’s affirmation of Cambodia’s commitment to refrain from developing any new coal-fired power plants and from building any new hydropower dams along the Mekong River. ...

The Kampong Speu Provincial Administration has reclaimed more than 300ha of forest land in Oral district which was being illegally logged and cleared by unidentified individuals. Authorities are searching for those responsible for the encroachment for legal action. ...

The BirdLife International Cambodia Programme on November 12 said it has found eight nests of the Asian woolly-necked stork in Lumphat Wildlife Sanctuary this breeding season, which it noted indicates an on-year increase in population. ...

Cambodia has committed to reducing greenhouse gases by up to 42% by 2030, Environment Minister Say Samal said yesterday at the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26), hosted by the UK in partnership with Italy, at the Scottish Event Campus in Glasgow. ...

Floods over the past four months in the Kingdom affected more than 45,000 families across 17 provinces, the National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM) said. ...

Australia launched the Cambodian component of the Mekong-Australia Partnership (MAP) initiative to strengthen Cambodia’s economic recovery, environmental resilience and human resource development. ...

Cambodia’s political stability and peace are the prerequisites for socio-economic development, environment protection, natural resource management, and biodiversity development in Cambodia, said Minister of Environment Say Samal on Tuesday. ...

Agricultural priorities for establishing food security in the face of a global climate crisis were the subject of regional workshop on Monday. ...

Rangers at the Boeung Tonle Chhmar Ramsar site bordering the Tonle Sap Lake in Kampong Thom province found 10 nests of the grey-headed fish eagle in October during its nesting season, bringing fresh hope for conservationists. ...

Ministry of Environment researchers spotted a large number of adult gaurs and their offsprings through motion-sensor cameras installed in various wildlife sanctuaries in Cambodia, bringing fresh hopes for environmentalists and biologists. ...

A senior Ministry of Environment official called for funding support from all countries to address climate change issues in the post-Covid-19 pandemic. ...

Despite the growth of Sihanoukville through its booming construction sector and its rapid development of urban infrastructure, problems related to garbage and solid waste management remain a challenge for the beachside tourist town. ...

Phnom Penh municipal governor Khuong Sreng reminded Covid-19 patients with mild symptoms who are treating themselves at home to dispose of their waste properly. ...

Some of Cambodia’s fishing communities and civil society organisations are expressing great concern over the ongoing loss of mangrove forests in coastal areas due to illegal encroachment as well as legal coastal development projects. They called on relevant authorities to intervene on the matter. ...

Apsara Authority, with the participation of monks and the private sector, on Monday planted 2,500 trees in the area of Preah Vihear Pram Pi Lveng Pagoda of Angkor Park to complement the beauty and environment of Angkor Wat. ...

The NGO2 Bamboo Shoot Foundation in cooperation with the Cambodian Association of Travel Agents (CATA) launched an environmental clean-up campaign to pick up plastic waste along the Tonle Sap Lake in Siem Reap province in order to improve the beauty of the area and increase ...

Stung Treng provincial Fisheries Administration officials warn that the Irrawady dolphins in the Ochheuteal dolphin pleasance in Borei O’Svay Sen Chey district’s Preah Rumkel commune are now faced with extinction as there is only one dolphin left remaining of the pod that was living there ...

Cambodia has about 3,000 spot-billed pelicans, which account for around 30 per cent of the global population, Ministry of Environment spokesperson Neth Pheaktra said on October 29. ...

The Ministry of Environment issued a report highlighting three kinds of endangered monkeys which are present in large numbers in Cambodia, including the pig-tailed macaque, pileated gibbon and stump-tailed macaque. ...

Cambodia is ready to participate in research on safe, sustainable and affordable energy sources to contribute to dealing with climate change issue. ...