Environment and natural resources
Forests and forestry
Illegal logging at Areng continues with lack of action by local authorities
Areng, an ecotourism site in Koh Kong’s Thmor Bang district, is being threatened by logging. ...
Sovann Sreypich
https://cambojanews.com/illegal-logging-at-areng-continues-with-lack-of-action-by-local-authorities/
Oral community to block entrance to forestland to protect from military clearance
Villagers in the Oral district of Kampong Speu province are digging in to protect what they claim as their community forest land, despite increasing pressure from the military to leave the site. ...
Sorn Sarath
https://cambojanews.com/oral-community-to-block-entrance-to-forestland-to-protect-from-military-clearance/
Cambodia’s eco-tourism tackles trash challenge
Waste management is a vital component of eco-tourism in Cambodia, especially in forests. Maintaining a clean environment in forests also creates jobs, providing locals with a way to transition from illegal hunting and logging to legal work in forest communities. ...
Son Minea
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501060877/cambodias-eco-tourism-tackles-trash-challenge/
Wealth of wildlife and plants discovered in Mondulkiri, says MoE
Researchers are celebrating the discovery of a large number of wildlife and rare plant species, as well as waterfalls in the Phnom Nam Lear Wildlife Sanctuary in Mondulkiri. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501059227/wealth-of-wildlife-and-plants-discovered-in-mondulkiri-says-moe/
NGOs petition for permit to patrol forests
The Ministry of Environment has received a petition from more than 20 NGOs and community members requesting the right to conduct patrols in protected areas, and urging increased enforcement of natural resource crimes. ...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngos-petition-permit-patrol-forests
Over 10,000 trees planted in Angkor Site
The APSARA National Authority in collaboration with Total Energies company, planted more than 10,000 trees in front of the Banteay Prey Temple of the Angkor site late last week. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501048760/over-10000-trees-planted-in-angkor-site/
More that 800 forest crimes, land grabs and illegal wildlife hunting reported last year
There were 811 cases of forest crimes, land grabs, and illegal hunting of wildlife reported last year, and of the number 320 involved in forest crimes were fined while another 491 were taken to court. ...
Hun Sen orders trees to be replanted at confiscated flooded forest land
Prime Minister Hun Sen has advised authorities to replant trees in the seized flooded forest land surrounding the Tonle Sap Lake. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501046582/hun-sen-orders-trees-to-be-replanted-at-confiscated-flooded-forest-land/
Measures against illegal logging a success, says committee
The National Committee for Forest Crime Prevention has touted its tougher measures to suppress illegal logging across the country as a success despite small-scale ones are still occurring. ...
Son Minea
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501045458/measures-against-illegal-logging-a-success-says-committee/
Cambodia marks forest day with tree planting
The Kingdom yesterday celebrated the International Day of Forests with tree planting by students, teachers, local authority representatives, government officials and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501045909/cambodia-marks-forest-day-with-tree-planting/
Preah Sihanouk police bust 295 for land grabbing
On March 19, the Preah Sihanouk Provincial Court issued arrest warrants for six brokers and placed six others under court supervision after they led nearly 300 people to occupy state land in the South Cardamom Mountains National Park in Cham village of Kampong Seila commune ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-sihanouk-police-bust-295-land-grabbing
Tea Banh urges speedy progress on land disputes
Minister of National Defence Tea Banh has urged the Koh Kong Provincial Administration to speed up the resolution of land disputes for the affected families and to prevent the problem from becoming more complicated. ...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tea-banh-urges-speedy-progress-land-disputes
Bunong block bulldozers, allege illegal land clearing
Fifty indigenous people in Mondulkiri province on March 15 stopped the clearing of forest land in Sokdom commune’s Laoka village, claiming that the site was reserved for collective land registration of the Bunong indigenous community. They said that clearing the land will result in the ...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bunong-block-bulldozers-allege-illegal-land-clearing
Herd of eight elephants spotted in Sre Pok Wildlife Sanctuary
A herd of eight elephants were spotted by conservationists from the Mondulkiri Provincial Department of Environment and WWF researchers yesterday in Sre Pok Wildlife Sanctuary. ...
Royal Academy president Sok Touch on his Tonle Sap wetlands investigation
In 2021, at the behest of the government, Royal Academy of Cambodia (RAC) president Sok Touch studied and investigated the challenges facing the Tonle Sap Lake, which covers an area of 640,000ha. ...
State land in protected area not for sale: official
A senior Ministry of Environment official urged commune and district administrations to stop signing certificates of transfer of rights, land use applications, or sale or purchase letters for state land within natural protected areas and biodiversity corridors under their jurisdiction. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/state-land-protected-area-not-sale-official
Preah Sihanouk squatting instigators face court
Preah Sihanouk provincial authorities are building a case to send a group of 10 suspects to court for allegedly instigating around 300 people to encroach on state land in the Southern Cardamom National Park in Cham Srey village of Kampong Seila district and commune. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-sihanouk-squatting-instigators-face-court
Over 2,000 attend Siem Reap tree ordination
More than 2,000 people including monks, teachers, students, Forestry Administration officials, local authorities and residents gathered to ceremonially ordain trees in the O’Teuk Chenh forest community in two villages of Tram Sasar commune in Siem Reap town on March 8. ...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/over-2000-attend-siem-reap-tree-ordination
ANA fells 100 trees too close to ancient sites
The Apsara National Authority (ANA) will fell and remove more than 100 trees from three important temple sites and some other areas in Prasat Bakong district and Siem Reap town, as they have a high risk of damaging temple grounds and important sites in the ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ana-fells-100-trees-too-close-ancient-sites
Afforestation project launched
The Forestry Administration signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Asian Forest Cooperation Organisation (AFoCO) on March 7 to launch a project on afforestation along with sustainable agriculture and community forest management. ...
Orm Bunthoeurn
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/afforestation-project-launched
Cambodia, UNESCO promote conservation of cultural heritage site
The Cambodian Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts and UNESCO have produced a short video to shed light on the richness of the site of Koh Ker in the northern province of Preah Vihear, on the occasion of the National Culture Day in Cambodia on ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501035659/cambodia-unesco-promote-conservation-of-cultural-heritage-site/
Soldiers Assault Villagers in Disputed Kampong Speu Forest, Says Rights Group
On Tuesday, members of the elite Brigade 70 military unit fired warning shots and physically assaulted villagers as the soldiers attempted to clear a section of disputed forest in the Aoral district of Kampong Speu, according to local witnesses and a rights organization. ...
Mech Dara and Andrew Haffner
https://vodenglish.news/soldiers-assault-villagers-in-disputed-kampong-speu-forest-says-rights-group/
Oral forest activists protest legal case against them over land dispute
Six forest community representatives in Kampong Speu province’s Oral district were questioned by the Provincial Court on Wednesday for intentionally causing damage, threatening, publicly insulting, and incitement. ...
Som Sarath
https://cambojanews.com/oral-forest-activists-protest-legal-case-against-them-over-land-dispute/
S. Korea to Establish Natural Park Near Cambodia’s Angkor Wat
A Korean-style forest park will be set up near Angkor Wat Buddhist temple complex, Cambodia’s most famous tourist destination, using South Korean forest management technology. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501030841/s-korea-to-establish-natural-park-near-cambodias-angkor-wat/