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Satellite data shows protected areas faced brunt of deforestation in 2022
New satellite data reveals that Cambodia’s remaining dense forests were further depleted last year, with four major protected areas and national parks registering higher deforestation than in 2021. ...
Andrew Califf
https://cambojanews.com/satellite-data-shows-protected-areas-faced-brunt-of-deforestation-in-2022/
Prey Lang community forest patrols persist despite being blocked, held, questioned
Twenty activists surveyed the Prey Lang forest for four days last week despite a recent wave of suppression against environmentalists, who have continued their work in defiance of a ban against community patrols. ...
Keat Soriththeavy
https://vodenglish.news/prey-lang-community-forest-patrols-persist-despite-being-blocked-held-questioned/
Forest activists allege logging scheme in Prey Lang
Forest activists from the Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) in Preah Vihear province claim that Macle Logistics Cambodia Co Ltd and PNT Co Ltd are working together to illegally collect timber being logged in the core area of the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/forest-activists-allege-logging-scheme-prey-lang
Green project to spur bio and economic diversity in Prey Lang
The legendary forest Prey Lang has given way to agricultural land, resulting in the migration of young Cambodians in search of work and, perhaps most crucially, a degradation of the area’s environment. ...
Husain Haider
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50821854/green-project-to-spur-bio-and-economic-diversity-in-prey-lang/
Ministries urged to do more to protect forest
Forest activists and community representatives have urged the government to post markers at protected natural areas to prevent encroachment of loggers and the clearing of forest. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35168/ministries-urged-to-do-more-to-protect-forests/
