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Eco groups slam Areng dam

3 April 2014
The Phnom Penh Post
Civil society / Energy / Energy policy and administration / Environment and natural resources / Environment and natural resources policy and administration / Environmental and biodiversity protection / Environmental impact assessments / Generation and distribution facilities / Government / Hydropower dams / International laws and treaties / Law and judiciary / Ministries and other national bodies / Ministry of Environment / Renewable energy production / Rivers and lakes / Social development / Water resources
Atai dam / China Guodian / CI / Conservation International / Convention on Biological Diversity / FFI / Flora and Fauna International / Ministry of Environment / Sawac Consultants for Development / Sinohydro Group / Stung Cheay Areng dam / Um Sereyvuth

Two major conservation groups yesterday said that the proposed Stung Cheay Areng dam in Koh Kong province should be scrapped, while protesters who have blocked developer Sinohydro Group from entering the site for several days headed to Phnom Penh to voice their concerns and discontent. Conservation ...

 Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/eco-groups-slam-areng-dam

Dam critics outline litany of risks

As villagers in Koh Kong province’s Areng Valley continue to block Sinohydro Corp employees from entering the area where the Stung Cheay Areng dam is planned, conservationists and rights workers have spoken of the havoc it will wreak if it goes ahead. In terms of the ...

 Daniel Pye and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dam-critics-outline-litany-risks

Blind eye to forest's plight

26 March 2012
The Phnom Penh Post
Community forest / Crime and law enforcement / Environment and natural resources / Environmental and biodiversity protection / Forest classifications / Forest policy and administration / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Land / Logging and timber / National parks and wildlife sanctuaries / Protected areas / Protected forest
CCPF / Central Cardamom Protected Forest / CI / conservation / Conservation International / David Emmett / Forests / illegal logging / Krunyung / rosewood / southwest Cambodia / the Krunyung wars / timber trade / Wildlife Alliance

Rangers paid by an internationally funded conservation organisation have been directly profiting for years from the very trade they are supposed to be preventing in southwest Cambodia, documents obtained by the Post allege. Former Conservation International (CI) staff members say when they spoke up about endemic ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012032655247/National-news/blind-eye-to-forests-plight.html

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