The law is meant to protect and empower the communities who have always lived in these areas. Instead, it gives all the power to the national parks department.
Category: Cambodia
The grandads fighting back against deforestation
Locals claim the government has been too slow to act. And one group has taken protecting the forest into their own hands.
Cambodia’s schools are the new frontline in the battle against climate change
With support from the European Union, Sweden and the United Nations Development Programme, climate change will be a part of a new and expanded earth science curriculum for higher secondary schools.
Cambodia underinvesting in agriculture research, ADB says
The report finds that the use of outdated equipment and facilities is compromising the volume and quality of research outputs in agriculture.
The Farm-to-table movement arrives Cambodia
“Cambodia’s first farm-to-table restaurant” specialising in New Mekong Cuisine, a mix of Khmer cuisine favourites and regional dishes.
Preserving water in his homeland
Elders within his small village along the Mekong River in Cambodia told Bunnara Min, “Where we have forest, there we have water.” He listened.