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Dengue, malaria eradication eyed in Prey Lang area

The Ministry of Environment is committed to eliminating malaria and other vector-borne diseases from the natural protected area in Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary by 2025. This is in line with the National Strategic Plan for Elimination of Malaria 2011-2025. ...

Ry Sochan
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/dengue-malaria-eradication-eyed-prey-lang-area

Illegal logging persists in Cambodia’s Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary: Report

Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary in Cambodia continues to be illegally cleared, according to a new report by the Cambodian Youth Network (CYN). Located in the central plains of Cambodia, Prey Lang forest straddles the four provinces of Kratie, Stung Treng, Kampong Thom and Preah Vihear. ...

Shreya Dasgupta
https://news.mongabay.com/2019/11/illegal-logging-persists-in-cambodias-prey-lang-wildlife-sanctuary-report/

NGO reports massive forest clearing in Prey Lang area

The Cambodian Youth Network yesterday said hundreds of hectares of forest land in the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary have been illegally cleared in Stung Treng and Preah Vihear provinces. ...

Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50657343/ngo-reports-massive-forest-clearing-in-prey-lang-area/

Illegal logging threatens Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary, says CYN report

The Cambodian Youth Network (CYN) released a report on Tuesday noting the loss and deforestation of some 3,000ha of forest land in the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary because of logging since last year. The report was based on investigative research into illegal logging in the said ...

Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/illegal-logging-threatens-prey-lang-wildlife-sanctuary-says-cyn-report

Monitoring group blames rise in forest crimes on authorities turning blind eye

A prominent forest monitoring group on Monday urged the government to combat illegal logging and poaching in the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary, which it claimed had seen a drastic increase in forestry crimes during the first five months of this year. The Prey Lang Community ...

Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/monitoring-group-blames-rise-forest-crimes-authorities-turning-blind-eye

PLCN plans patrol in May to crack down on forestry crime

The Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) is planning a joint patrol this month with activists from four provinces – Stung Treng, Kratie, Kampong Thom and Preah Vihear – to scout the protected area and crack down on forestry crimes. Kheng Kho, a PLCN representative in ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/plcn-plans-patrol-may-crack-down-forestry-crime

Cambodia’s sanctuaries under threat

Cambodia’s Beng Per Wildlife Sanctuary is symbolic of the country’s poor forestry management. Around 2,000 square kilometres (sq km) – around three times the size of Singapore – is lost to illegal logging in Cambodia every year where wildlife sanctuaries – despite their name – ...

Jason Thomas
https://theaseanpost.com/article/cambodias-sanctuaries-under-threat

Environment Ministry and USAID launch Prey Lang project

The Environment Ministry and the United States Agency for International Development yesterday launched the Greening Prey Lang Project to promote sustainable livelihood and law enforcement in the Prey Lang community in four provinces. The project is estimated to be worth $21 million and funding will ...

Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50593365/environment-ministry-and-usaid-launch-prey-lang-project/

Activists come together for Prey Lang tree ceremony

The Ministry of Environment and 300 villagers from natural protection communities across four provinces gathered at Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary this weekend for a tree ceremony calling for the protection of natural resources, ministry spokesman Neth Pheaktra told The Post on Sunday. ...

Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/activists-come-together-prey-lang-tree-ceremony

Environment ministry works to better identify timber sources

Minister of Environment Say Sam Al said on Monday that his ministry is working with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries to identify whether transported timber is from legal or illegal sources. Cambodian Youth Party (CYP) president Pich Sros, who is also a member ...

Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/environment-ministry-works-better-identify-timber-sources

Forest crime ‘rife’ at Prey Lang

A Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) member in Thmea commune, in Preah Vihear province’s Chey Sen district, on Sunday claimed that authorities are unable to stamp out forest crime in the nature reserve, instances of which have been occurring for months. ...

Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/forest-crime-rife-prey-lang

Forest activists issue damning report of logging at Prey Lang

Activist groups from four provinces jointly published a report showing that 41 per cent of new tree stumps at the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary that was recorded over the last two years were the result of illegal logging. The 7th Prey Lang Monitoring Report by ...

Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/forest-activists-issue-damning-report-logging-prey-lang

Illegal logging still rampant in four provinces: PLCN

The Prey Lang Community Network yesterday claimed that its patrols have found that illegal logging is still rampant in Kratie, Kampong Thom, Stung Treng and Preah Vihear provinces and urged the relevant ministries and authorities to strengthen enforcement. ...

Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50567130/illegal-logging-still-rampant-in-four-provinces-plcn/

‘Defamed’ Korean company denies Prey Lang illegal logging claims

The Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) has alleged that Korean-owned Think Biotech (Cambodia) Co Ltd is illegally harvesting timber from resin trees in the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary. But a company representative refuted the claim and accused the community of making up rumours to defame ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/defamed-korean-company-denies-prey-lang-illegal-logging-claims

Rangers prepare incitement action against ‘armed mob’

Environmental rangers in Preah Vihear’s Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary are preparing to file a complaint against 15 people for inciting an armed mob of villagers on Saturday to “liberate” three rice tractors impounded at an environmental office. ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rangers-prepare-incitement-action-against-armed-mob

Report outlines Prey Lang loggers

At least 73 people were detained this year and handed over to the environment authority by the Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) for clearing forest in the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary, a huge nature reserve in northern Cambodia spanning four provinces.​ ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/report-outlines-prey-lang-loggers

Preah Vihear parks see clearing

Forest rangers and the Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) said on Tuesday that forest in the Phnom Tnort-Phnom Pok and Prey Lang wildlife sanctuaries in Preah Vihear province are being cleared by groups of perpetrators from Kampong Thom, Kampong Cham, Siem Reap and Battambang provinces. ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/preah-vihear-parks-see-clearing

Loggers detained in wildlife sanctuary

Rangers and officials from the Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) detained 12 loggers and confiscated seven chainsaws and three cubic meters of timber in Kampong Thom province’s Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary. ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/loggers-detained-wildlife-sanctuary

Prey Lang Community Network seeks government intervention

The Prey Lang Community Network today submitted a report to the Environment Ministry accusing local authorities in the province of colluding with businessmen to illegally cut trees in protected forests. ...

Khuon Narim
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50539403/prey-lang-community-network-seeks-government-intervention/

Villagers resolve to depose sanctuary chief

The 1,294 families from Kampong Cham commune in Kratie province’s Sambo district who had filed a complaint demanding the removal of the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary chief is set for an inter-ministerial hearing today. ...

Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-resolve-depose-sanctuary-chief

Villagers complain against sanctuary head

The Kampong Cham commune council in Kratie province’s Sambo district is representing 1,294 families to lodge a complaint against Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary head Nhem Visal for abusing villagers and allowing traders to haul timber illegally. ...

Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-complain-against-sanctuary-head

Forest crimes are up, as elections occupy cops

Activists in the northern provinces of Cambodia claimed on Tuesday that while police forces are busy providing security for the July 29 national elections, they are witnessing a worrying spike in forest crimes. Prey Lang Community Network activist Phok Hong told The Post that forest ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/forest-crimes-are-elections-occupy-cops

Forest patrol catches loggers

Ten men were caught engaged in illegal logging during a three-day patrol by the Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) that began on Friday. This led a representative of the group to declare that illegal logging at the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary in Preah Vihear province ...

Phak Seangly
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/forest-patrol-catches-loggers

Agreement signed to protect Prey Lang forest

The Environment Ministry, partner organisations and a Japanese company expect that implementation of a $1.5 million forest conservation project for three years will help prevent forest crime, biodiversity loss and improve the livelihoods of community members in the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary. ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50112028/agreement-signed-protect-prey-lang-forest/

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