Environment and natural resources
Biodiversity
More than 100 turtles freed into protected zone
Banteay Meanchey provincial authorities yesterday released more than 100 rescued turtles into a conservation area in Preah Netr Preah district. Sin Rasy, district military police commander, said that the turtles were seized from poachers earlier this month and were released into the O’ronteah Banh turtle ...
Pav Suy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50525131/more-than-100-turtles-freed-into-protected-zone/
Crackdown on illegal fishing in Tonle Sap
Pursat provincial police and fishery administration officials cracked down on a large scale illegal fishing operation along Tonle Sap lake and seized equipment including over 5,300 fishing nets in Kandieng district’s Raing Til commune. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50524750/crackdown-on-illegal-fishing-in-tonle-sap/
Dead Irrawaddy dolphin found on beach
An Irrawaddy dolphin weighing more than 100 kilograms was found dead on Koh Rong Sanloem beach yesterday, with officials blaming plastic bag consumption for its death. Minister of Information Khieu Kanharith said on Facebook that the dolphin likely died many days ago and then was ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50523122/dead-irrawaddy-dolphin-found-on-beach/
WWF urges stronger elephant conservation
WWF Cambodia said that elephants play a crucial role in balancing ecosystems by maintaining biodiversity. It said that elephants continue to face extinction due to habitat destruction and conflict with humans, including poaching. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50521892/wwf-urges-stronger-elephant-conservation/
More than 60 kilos of wild meat seized
Forestry administration officials and military police officers in Mondulkiri province on Wednesday raided two houses and seized more than 60 kilograms of wild meat in Sen Monorom city’s Spean Meanchey commune. ...
Pav Suy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50521262/more-than-60-kilos-of-wild-meat-seized/
Wildlife seized, suspects questioned
Military police in Banteay Meanchey province’s Preah Neth Preah district on Sunday confiscated endangered animals from two men suspected of poaching wildlife in Thailand. District military police Commander Sin Rasy said yesterday that authorities managed to stop an SUV transporting endangered wildlife. ...
Pav Suy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50519715/wildlife-seized-suspects-questioned/
Trapping contributes to tiger decline
The World Wide Fund for Nature in Cambodia has urged the government to crack down on wildlife trapping, trafficking and illegal logging to conserve wildlife and natural resources. Tigers especially had been seriously threatened by hunting and trapping. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50514520/trapping-contributes-to-tiger-decline/
Man busted with wildlife in Kampong Thom
District authorities in Kampong Thom province on Tuesday arrested a Kampong Cham man who was allegedly driving a van hauling illegal wildlife and timber, according to Mom Sophal, chief of the Forestry Administration office in Kampong Thmor. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/man-busted-wildlife-kampong-thom
Asian demand for cement destroys stunning cliffs in Cambodia – pulverised for their limestone
Across the continent, a construction boom is driving record demand for a core constituent of cement – limestone – resulting in the utter destruction of unique and fragile ecosystems. ...
Irrawaddy dolphin found dead
A critically endangered Irrawaddy dolphin was found dead, floating along a stretch of the Mekong River in Kratie’s Chet Boreid district on Wednesday. The cause of the mammal’s death was determined as bruising to its gills caused by an illegal fishing net. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/irrawaddy-dolphin-found-dead-0
Monkeys are saved from Preah Vihear farm
Nearly 100 monkeys are under medical supervision at the Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Center (PTWRC) after they were saved from a farm located in Preah Vihear province’s Tbeng Meanchey district on Friday. Nhoek Rattanakpich, who heads the PTWRC, said 95 monkeys were taken from a ...
Post Staff
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/monkeys-are-saved-preah-vihear-farm
Officials seize 400kg of wildlife in Kratie
Phnom Penh Forestry Administration (FA) on Tuesday morning stopped a passenger bus that was carrying snakes, water monitor lizards, turtles and tortoises, weighing a total of 400kg, said Kom Seyha, office chief at the Phnom Penh FA, who led the operation. ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/officials-seize-400kg-wildlife-kratie
Police intercept vehicle with smuggled wildlife
Chab Sopharith, Banteay Meanchey provincial deputy police chief, said the operation was carried out on National Road 59, in the province’s Malai commune. A driver was arrested but later released when it was ascertained that he was not involved in the case. ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/police-intercept-vehicle-smuggled-wildlife
Eating to extinction—urban appetite for bushmeat sparks wildlife crisis in Cambodia
From baby elephants to sun bears and pangolins, escalating demand for bushmeat in towns and cities is taking an increasingly heavy toll on some of Cambodia’s most endangered wildlife. ...
Tim Knight
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-extinctionurban-appetite-bushmeat-wildlife-crisis.html
Rangers find 109,217 snares in a single park in Cambodia
According to Gray, the snaring crisis is worst in Vietnam and Laos, but is increasing in Cambodia – where he works – as well as Myanmar, Indonesia and Thailand. In some places – even protected areas – it is so bad that scientists talk of ...
Leaked report decries reservoir
The final report assessing the impact of a future dam in Kratie has claimed that the dam project could result in “killing the life” of the Mekong River. This final report said the project’s location is the worst possible for a dam and would have ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/leaked-report-decries-reservoir
Endangered animals found dead in Pailin
An endangered gaur was one of “many” wild animals found dead in “dozens” of illegal traps in Pailin province’s Phnom Khieu Wildlife Sanctuary, said Chit Thy, a military officer working with rangers to protect the conservation area, on Wednesday. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/endangered-animals-found-dead-pailin
Kampong Speu authorities confiscate nearly 20 kilograms of wildlife
Kampong Speu Military Police, along with Wild-life Alliance experts, on Wednesday cracked down on a home in Chech village where they confiscated nearly 20 kilograms of live wild animals, officials said on Thursday. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kampong-speu-authorities-confiscate-nearly-20-kilograms-wildlife
Authorities in Oddar Meanchey on the hunt for wild elephant
Cambodian authorities are monitoring a rogue wild elephant following a day in pursuit of the pachyderm after she trampled a number of villagers’ farmland. The female elephant was spotted on Sunday morning in Oddar Meanchey’s Dangrek Mountains – a rare sighting, according to Banteay Ampil ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/authorities-oddar-meanchey-hunt-wild-elephant
Irrawaddy dolphin numbers rise
The World Wildlife Fund said that the Irrawaddy dolphin population increased by ten percent in 2017 when compared to data obtained in 2015, but the animal advocate remains concerned about threats that continue in the habitat of the dolphins. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50480023/irrawaddy-dolphin-numbers-rise-2/
Endangered banteng dies in trap in Kampong Speu
An endangered banteng died of wounds inflicted by a hunter’s snare on Saturday as an attempt to rescue it was mounted weeks after it was first spotted injured in a Kampong Speu community forest. A patrol team in the Bram Beymom Community forest in Thpong ...
Phak Seangly
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/endangered-banteng-dies-trap-kampong-speu
Banteng poacher arrested, pangolins rescued in separate busts
In two operations last week, Wildlife Alliance officials rescued three pangolins in Kampong Speu province and on Thursday arrested a banteng poacher alongside Military Police in the Cardamom Mountains. Following a two-week investigation into suspected wildlife traders, a team from the environmental NGO raided two ...
Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon and Phak Seangly
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/banteng-poacher-arrested-pangolins-rescued-separate-busts
Animals dying from poisoned pond raises health concerns
A Wildlife Conservation Society official yesterday expressed concern about the potential impact on birds, livestock and humans after a poisoned pond was found in a conservation area in Preah Vihear province’s Chheb district. ...
Mom Sophon
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50114898/animals-dying-from-poisoned-pond-raises-health-concerns/
Irrawaddy dolphin found dead in Stung Treng
An Irrawaddy dolphin was found dead on Saturday in Stung Treng province, near the border of Laos’ Don Sahong region, where Lao authorities are constructing a hydropower dam. Environmental activist Chum Huot said yesterday that villagers in the Preah Rumkel community found the dead dolphin and ...
Mom Sophon
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50113509/irrawaddy-dolphin-found-dead-in-stung-treng/