Forest products

Forestry Industry

Chainsaws, tents found at Prey Lang sanctuary

The Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) representative in Kampong Thom province, Sok Plok told The Post that his team had found and seized a number of chainsaws and tents left behind by loggers in the forest. ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chainsaws-tents-found-prey-lang-sanctuary

Four jailed for illegal logging

Four suspects were jailed Thursday for illegally harvesting luxury timber from a protected forest in Mondulkiri province’s Koh Nhek district, a court official said yesterday. Morm Vanda, a provincial court spokesman, yesterday said the four were jailed after being suspected of illegal logging in a ...

Pav Suy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50542461/four-jailed-for-illegal-logging/

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

Activist asks UN to review EU-Vietnam timber deal

A prominent environmental activist has reached out to the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment in a bid to have him oppose a timber trade deal set to be inked between the European Union and Vietnam. ...

Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50541573/activist-asks-un-to-review-eu-vietnam-timber-deal/

EU reassures NGOs over timber trade with Vietnam

The European Union has quashed concerns of several Cambodia environmental NGOs over a trade deal on tropical timber with Vietnam, saying that the scheme is to promote legally harvested timber, EU Ambassador to Cambodia George Edgar said.​ ...

Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50541199/eu-reassures-ngos-over-timber-trade-with-vietnam/

Mondulkiri communities worried over forest clearing

Indigenous people in Mondulkiri province’s Keo Seima district yesterday expressed concern over logging activities in the Phnom Prich Wildlife Sanctuary, which they claim is allowed by some commune authorities.​ ...

Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50540804/mondulkiri-communities-worried-over-forest-clearing/

‘Positive impact’: Prey Lang forest app wins award

Danish researcher Ida Theilade has been bestowed the University of Copenhagen’s Innovation Award 2018 for inventing a smartphone app that can prevent illegal logging and preserve forest resources in the Prey Lang forest. ...

Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/positive-impact-prey-lang-forest-app-wins-award

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

EU timber deal in firing line

A committee of more than 20 national and international organisations filed a petition to the EU on October 10 to prevent it from signing a timber trade agreement with Vietnam, noting that the deal would be disastrous to the Kingdom’s forests. The petition claims Vietnamese ...

Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/eu-timber-deal-firing-line

Prey Lang Community Network seeks government intervention

The Prey Lang Community Network today submitted a report to the Environment Ministry accusing local authorities in the province of colluding with businessmen to illegally cut trees in protected forests. ...

Khuon Narim
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50539403/prey-lang-community-network-seeks-government-intervention/

Cambodia accused Vietnam of systematic logging fraud

Cambodia has asked Interpol to investigate its allegations that Vietnam has repeatedly and knowingly accepted fraudulent permits for endangered luxury timber that is illegally logged across the border. ...

David Boyle
https://www.voanews.com/a/cambodia-logging-vietnam/4595854.html

Mondulkiri governor tackles logging

Mondulkiri provincial Governor Svay Sam Eang led a taskforce to inspect private companies operating nearby protected forests on Sunday in the wake of being criticised by Interior Minister Sar Kheng for failing to curb illegal logging. ...

Khy Sovuthy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50538673/mondulkiri-governor-tackles-logging/

Farmer nabbed at Thai border

One of six Cambodian villagers was arrested by Thai soldiers on Sunday night for allegedly crossing the border to log rosewood in Thailand. Pov Pheng, deputy head of Cambodian-Thai border liaison office at the International O’smach Border Checkpoint, identified the villager as Roeun Sela, 35, ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/farmer-nabbed-thai-border

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

Timber trade sanctions sought

The UK-based Environmental Investigation Agency on Wednesday called for a rosewood trade suspension against Vietnam, accusing it of accepting fake Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species permits from Cambodia. ...

Khmer Times Team
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50537566/timber-trade-sanctions-sought/

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

Svay Sam Eang responds to Sar Kheng criticism

Mondulkiri provincial Governor Svay Sam Eang has responded to criticism from Interior Minister Sar Kheng who claimed that provincial officials have failed to curb forestry crimes. ...

Khy Sovuthy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50536930/svay-sam-eang-responds-to-sar-kheng-criticism/

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

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

Vehicles seized from illegal timber transporters

The Kampong Thom provincial Forestry Administration yesterday seized three vehicles that were illegally transporting timber. Mom Sophal, Forestry Administration division chief in Kampong Thmar, said his officials seized three vehicles transporting small trees and firewood without permission from authorities at about 10.30am in Baray district. ...

Khuon Narim
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50534497/vehicles-seized-from-illegal-timber-transporters/

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

Police detain six illegal loggers from Laos

Stung Treng provincial police have detained six illegal loggers from Laos who were caught crossing in the province on Friday. Provincial police chief Major General Mao Dara yesterday said that the six men are awaiting repatriation to Laos under an agreement between the countries on ...

Pav Suy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50534075/police-detain-six-illegal-loggers-from-laos/

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