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Ministry tallies forestry crimes

The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries yesterday stated that last year it cracked down on more than 1,000 cases. In a report, the ministry said that there were a total of 1,093 cases last year, noting that 582 resulted in fines and 511 were ...

Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50575309/ministry-tallies-forestry-crimes/

Ministry institutes new permanent secretariat to prevent forest crimes

A forestry administration spokesman on Thursday said the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries had recently created a new permanent secretariat to prevent all types of forestry crimes, with a particular focus on illegal rosewood trading. ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-institutes-new-permanent-secretariat-prevent-forest-crimes

Forest activists face ‘incitement’ probe

A senior rights group official and eight ethnic community members were questioned by a Ratanakkiri provincial court prosecutor on Tuesday over alleged incitement to forestry crimes. ...

Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/forest-activists-face-incitement-probe

Cambodian, Vietnamese police meet to discuss forestry crimes

Cambodian and Vietnamese police officials met on Sunday to discuss forestry crime prevention along the border between both countries in Mondulkiri province. ...

Khy Sovuthy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50562632/cambodian-vietnamese-police-meet-to-discuss-forestry-crimes/

Stung Treng Provincal Hall rebukes forestry crime criticism

Stung Treng provincial officials have urged local authorities to continue cooperating to crack down on forestry crimes following some negative posts on social media. A statement from the Provincal Hall on Monday urged people to stop posting false information about steps taken to stop forestry ...

Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50543689/stung-treng-provincal-hall-rebukes-forestry-crime-criticism/

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/

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/

Mobile app tracks forest crimes

The Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) has recorded 2,926 cases of forestry crimes in four provinces since February 2015, a report it released on Thursday said. It was based on data collected with a novel smartphone app. ...

Phak Seangly
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mobile-app-tracks-forest-crimes

Five people held for illegally-cut timber

A joint task-force consisting of the national police and Pursat province’s Phnom Kravanh district police on Saturday arrested five people found transporting illegally-felled timber in Santre commune. ...

Pav Suy
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50524318/five-people-held-for-illegally-cut-timber/

Ministry to monitor Kirirom national park

Senior Environment Ministry officials on Saturday agreed to continue to work together and cooperate with local forest rangers in order to maintain order and prevent forestry crimes from occurring in Kirirom national park. ...

Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50524365/ministry-to-monitor-kirirom-national-park/

Officials clear land at Vietnamese border

Irregularities have been found in the Mondulkiri provincial administration over clearing state land to make way for timber smuggling to Vietnam. An investigation has been launched to find the officers responsible. ...

Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5089736/officials-clear-land-vietnamese-border/

Woman jailed for ‘brazen’ timber grab

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday sentenced a Vietnamese  businesswoman, who stormed a forestry office to steal her seized timber, to two years imprisonment and a fine of $12,500. ...

Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/39757/woman-jailed-for----brazen----timber-grab/

Vietnamese timber trader ‘Grandma May’ flees after order to arrest her

A Vietnamese national reputed to be a prominent illegal timber trader is believed to have fled to her native country after the Oddar Meanchey provincial governor ordered her arrest last week. ...

Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/vietnamese-timber-trader-grandma-may-flees-after-order-arrest-her

Environment ministry’s annual report out

The Environment Ministry’s annual report revealed 600 forestry crimes in protected areas, while there were nearly 700 cases of fishing, wildlife and land crimes. The report, released yesterday, showed that rangers, in collaboration with relevant parties, managed to prevent and suppress offenses at national parks, wildlife ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/33457/environment-ministry---s-annual-report-out/

Villager efforts reveal illegal timber activities

Villagers have found more than 100 cubic metres of timber and three chainsaws in Prey Lang forest during a six-day patrol for illegal logging, community officials said yesterday. Scouring the forest on motorcycles and on foot, more than 300 villagers from four provinces found 100 cubic ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012091858763/National-news/villagers-reveal-illegal-logging.html

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