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Blooming tall: World record orchid producing rare flowers in Siem Reap
A rare example of the Preah Trahoeng giant orchid, the world’s tallest orchid, is blooming for the third time within the Kingdom. ...
Phak Seangly
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/blooming-tall-world-record-orchid-producing-rare-flowers-in-siem-reap
Environment ministry plans large-scale seedling nursery in Phnom Kulen National Park
The Ministry of Environment has finalised a feasibility study and plans to build a large-scale nursery in Preah Jayavarman-Norodom Phnom Kulen National Park, spanning three hectares, which can produce three million seedlings per year. ...
Phak Seangly
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/environment-ministry-plans-large-scale-seedling-nursery-in-phnom-kulen-national-park
ADF set to expand protected zone in Kulen national park
The Archaeology and Development Foundation (ADF) with the support of the Ministry of Environment and UNDP is expanding an existing forest protection area in Phnom Kulen National Park to 800ha. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/adf-set-expand-protected-zone-kulen-national-park
Illegal land clearing in Banteay Srei stopped
Siem Reap province’s Banteay Srei district authorities on Friday stopped and warned of legal action against the unauthorised clearing of forest land led by a machinery owner at the district’s Hal village in Tbeng commune. District governor Khim Finan told The Post on Sunday that ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/illegal-land-clearing-banteay-srei-stopped
Officials demolish 49 illegal huts in Siem Reap
After the authorities on Friday and Saturday dismantled 49 of some 1,000 huts which had been built illegally on forest land in Siem Reap’s Phnom Kulen National Park, Banteay Srei district governor Khim Finan said on Sunday that a hunt was on for a group ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/officials-demolish-49-illegal-huts-siem-reap
Families instructed to remove illegal huts near Phnom Kulen
The Banteay Srei district authority in Siem Reap province ordered some 1,000 families to dismantle hundreds of huts they had illegally built to grab state land near Phnom Kulen, in Tbeng Lech village and Srah Khvav village in Tbeng commune. District governor Khim Finan said ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/families-instructed-remove-illegal-huts-near-phnom-kulen
1,000 Phnom Kulen families to be relocated
A group of about 1,000 families living in Siem Reap province’s Phnom Kulen National Park will be relocated to prevent them from continuing an environmentally detrimental trend of clearing land, building homes, selling and repeating, the environment minister said on Thursday. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/1000-phnom-kulen-families-to-be-relocated-131679/
What lies beneath: The fight to save Phnom Kulen
Illegal logging and destructive farming practices have archaeologists racing to rescue an ecologically crucial mountain and its hidden temples. Some 80 per cent of the forest on Phnom Kulen – one of Cambodia’s National Parks – has disappeared due to a combination of illegal logging, ...
Poppy McPherson and Vandy Muong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/what-lies-beneath-fight-save-phnom-kulen
