Environment and natural resources
City hall planning to privatize 280-hectare development site
City Hall plans to privatize a 280-hectare plot of public land set aside for a $3 billion development by the Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation (OCIC) in Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changva district, officials said Thursday. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/city-hall-planning-to-privatize-280-hectare-development-site-109413/
NGO backs crackdown on logging, wants more
The Indigenous Peoples and Forestry Network (IPFN) yesterday released a statement praising the government’s ongoing purported crackdown on illegal logging, but saying far more needs to be done. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngo-backs-crackdown-logging-wants-more
Cambodians raise questions about Angkor Beer's involvement in Don Sahong Dam
An attempt by about 100 Cambodian protesters to force the Angkor Beer company to divest its stake in the Don Sahong hydropower plant in Laos fell flat on Friday when company representatives said the brewer has no involvement in the project. ...
Eco-business Team
http://www.eco-business.com/news/cambodians-raise-questions-about-angkor-beers-involvement-in-don-sahong-dam/
Preah Vihear blaze razes timber
A blaze authorities have attributed to a forest fire ripped through a nearly 4,000-cubic-metre timber stockpile on a social land concession in Preah Vihear’s Kulen district on the weekend, although the company yesterday said it suspected a case of arson. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-vihear-blaze-razes-timber
PM gives ministers an 'F', lashes out at illegal logging task force
Prime Minister Hun Sen unleashed a tirade against underperforming government officials in a pair of speeches yesterday – musing aloud about reshuffling his Council of Ministers and wondering why rockets had not yet been deployed in the Kingdom’s recent “crackdown” on illegal logging. ...
Mech Dara, Lay Samean and Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-gives-ministers-f-lashes-out-illegal-logging-task-force
RepRisk releases Special Report on the Lower Mekong Basin
RepRisk, the leading provider of dynamic business intelligence on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks, has released its Special Report on the Lower Mekong Basin, the second in a series of reports on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), an economic and political organization ...
Business Wire Team
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160223006393/en/RepRisk-releases-Special-Report-Mekong-Basin
The hunt for long-tailed macaques
Villagers in the Cardamoms said earlier this month that the illegal practice of capturing wild long-tailed macaque monkeys is alive and well, despite a government ban. The practice was outlawed in 2010, after wild captures devastated Cambodian populations of the monkeys, but high demand by ...
Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21783/the-hunt-for-long-tailed-macaques/
Gov’t names illegal logging profiteers, but courts won’t prosecute
More than a month has passed since National Anti-Deforestation Committee (NADC) named the people it suspects of profiting from the trade in illegal timber, but not a single arrest warrant or court summons has been issued since. As perpetrators continue to go unpunished, the illegal ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21780/gov---t-names-illegal-logging-profiteers--but-courts-won---t-prosecute/
Task force for illegal logging begins sending cases to court
An ad hoc task force set up by Prime Minister Hun Sun last month to go after illegal timber stocks in eastern Cambodia has started sending cases to the provincial courts for prosecution, National Police spokesman Eng Hy said on Monday. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/task-force-for-illegal-logging-begins-sending-cases-to-court-108847/
New anti-deforestation committee ‘successful’
Over a month after launching, the National Anti-Deforestation Committee (NADC) has claimed that deforestation crimes across the country have dropped significantly, with the majority of illegal deforestation occurring in Mondulkiri, Kratie and Tbong Khmum provinces. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21729/new-anti-deforestation-committee----successful---/
NGOs, military police join forces in logging crackdown
Six prominent conservation groups yesterday vowed to help a military police task force fight illegal logging near the eastern border yesterday. However, scepticism persists that the highly publicised operation, which has resulted in few arrests, is merely for show. ...
Mech Dara and Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ngos-military-police-join-forces-logging-crackdown
Kingdom ranks low on global green list
Cambodia has performed poorly in the 2016 edition of a recent environmental report, ranking a dismal 146 out of 180 countries.The Kingdom returned one of the lowest Environmental Performance Index (EPI) scores in the region, narrowly edging ahead of Myanmar and Laos. ...
Erin Handley
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kingdom-ranks-low-global-green-list
Cambodia preparing for the impacts of climate change, says official
Cambodia is beginning to coordinate efforts to respond to climate change, a government official said ahead of high-level talks in California at which the environment is set to be on the agenda. ...
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodia-preparing-for-the-impacts-of-climate-change-says-official/3193231.html
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodia-preparing-for-the-impacts-of-climate-change-says-official/3193231.html
Illegal Cambodian loggers detained in Thailand
Four Cambodian nationals were arrested by Thai authorities on illegal logging allegations after the suspects were caught in a Surin province wildlife sanctuary with felled Siamese Rosewood trees and logging tools on Monday, according to officials. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21479/illegal-cambodian-loggers-detained-in-thailand/
Concern over decline of Cambodia’s honeybees
Honeybees have a huge role in tropical ecosystems, but illegal logging and unsustainable honey harvesting are hurting their population. Honeybees have co-evolved with flowering plants and their overall health is an indicator of an ecosystem’s wellbeing. ...
Hong Chenda
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/concerns-over-decline-of-cambodia-honeybees/3191664.html
Rubber company denies any illegal logging
A rubber plantation in Mondolkiri province targeted by a new government task force sweeping the eastern provinces for illicit timber stocks has denied any involvement in the illegal logging trade. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rubber-company-denies-any-illegal-logging-108555/
Official gets called out in sanctuary logging case
Two men have been arrested over, and a military official implicated in, illegal logging that took place at the protected Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary last week. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/official-gets-called-out-sanctuary-logging-case
Logs seized in Stung Treng
The recently created nationwide anti-logging commission seized 300 logs of illegal timber at a sawmill near a Vietnamese graveyard in Stung Treng province on Friday. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/logs-seized-stung-treng
Satellite navigation system ready for take-off
Cambodian airports are preparing to install a satellite-guided performance-based navigation (PBN) system that will save carriers time and fuel, and reduce air pollution, according to the State Secretariat of Civil Aviation. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21362/satellite-navigation-system-ready-for-take-off/
River Coalition of Cambodia: say no to Lao dam
The River Coalition of Cambodia, along with 13 other NGOs, released a letter yesterday requesting Prime Minister Hun Sen demand the Lao government to cancel the construction of their Don Sahong hydropower dam and also pause all hydropower projects along the Mekong River due to ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21318/river-coalition-of-cambodia--say-no-to-lao-dam/
Journalist detained over logging story
A journalist who accused a military police commander of accepting bribes from illegal loggers in Mondolkiri province was arrested and briefly detained on Thursday on the commander’s orders, a move that was criticized by the Ministry of Information. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/journalist-detained-over-logging-story-108258/
Bribes alleged at Phnom Oral Sanctuary
Government rangers, paid to protect the Phnom Oral Wildlife Sanctuary, allow loggers to process and transport illegally felled timber in exchange for bribes, an NGO alleged yesterday after conducting an undercover operation in the protected forest. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bribes-alleged-phnom-oral-sanctuary
Another cache of buried logs found near Oknha’s sawmill
Authorities have unearthed another cache of high-grade logs buried near a well-known timber dealer’s sawmill in Tbong Khmum province, weeks after finding a stockpile of buried logs on the businessman’s property in the same district. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/another-cache-of-buried-logs-found-near-oknhas-sawmill-107986/
Wild animals, illegal meat seized in raids
Authorities have seized more than 160 kilograms of illegal wildlife meat and several live animals during separate raids in Stung Treng and Ratanakkiri provinces over the past week. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/wild-animals-illegal-meat-seized-raids