“Cambodia can expect to graduate from Least Developed Country status towards the end of the 2020s. The time to prepare new sources of financing is now as this report makes clear.”
Category: Cambodia
Birdlife and the Ministry of Environment collaborate to rehabilitate forest in Takeo
Birdlife collaborated with the Ministry of Environment to rehabilitate the flooded forests in the Prek Lpou Lake area in Koh Andet district, Takeo province. They plan to restore the flooded forest habitat for fish and the birds in the area.
Rangers crackdown on more than 4,000 natural resource crimes
Most of the cases involved encroachment on state’s forest land in protected areas, illegal logging and poaching, among other crimes.
In Mekong region, drug trade thrives
Seventy-one percent of the record seizure of 169 tonnes of methamphetamine in East and Southeast Asia in 2020 were in these five Mekong countries: Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam,
Programme launched to rehabilitate land in degraded forest areas
This project is funded by the Mekong-Lancang Cooperation Special Fund for a two-year period [2018-2020] with a budget of $500,000. So far, 90 per cent of the plan has been achieved. However, the outbreak of Covid-19 has forced the project to be delayed until the end of 2021.
Seized timber to make Covid -19 coffins
Authorities seized 1,347 cubic metres of timber in 2020 and 2021. It is estimated that the amount of confiscated wood could make more than 1,000 coffins.
Official: Protect rare pitcher plants
A senior environment official called on holidaymakers to Cambodia’s pristine tropical forest tourist destinations to avoid plucking, collecting or breaking vulnerable plant species – especially the exotic carnivorous pitcher plants of the Nepenthes genus – to conserve the beauty and scenic value of nature, and to save populations.
Khun Sea Development fills In Mekong River near Arey Ksat ferry stop
Kandal Governor Kong Sophorn said that the filling in was being done by a “company” but did not name Khun Sea Development. He, however, told Thmey Thmey that Khun Sea’s company was doing the reclamation after being granted 70 hectares on a 50-year lease.
‘Please show mercy’: Evicted by Cambodia, ethnic Vietnamese stuck at watery border
But few are willing to help hundreds of stateless families, who had earned a living breeding fish and hosting tourists on Cambodia’s Tonle Sap River, and are now moored to a riverbank a few kilometres from Vietnam, desperate to be allowed inside.