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.
Category: Cambodia
Fifth Mekong dolphin calf recorded this year
Censuses conducted by the Fisheries Administration and WWF-Cambodia show 13 and nine births in 2019-2020, respectively, and eight and nine deaths, leaving the total population of Irrawaddy dolphins in the Kingdom’s reaches of the Mekong at just 89. From 2007-2020 the average annual growth rate has been 1.02 per cent and the average annual death rate has been 2.14 per cent, signalling a slow demise of the gentle creatures, according to a joint report by the two organisations.
Carving up the Cardamoms: Conservationists fear massive land grab in Cambodia
Conservationists have expressed concern over a recently published regulation that makes nearly 127,000 hectares (313,800 acres) of previously protected land potentially available for sale or rent to politically connected businesses.
Cambodia’s first giant muntjac sighting highlights key mountain habitat
The camera traps recorded a diverse range of other species in addition to the rare deer. In total, 13 species were recorded that are threatened with extinction on the IUCN Red List,
N Calls for End to ‘Punitive Measures’ Used Against Cambodian Environmental Activists
‘Human rights and environmental work are not criminal offenses,’ the UN says in a June 30 statement.
World’s rarest species confirmed in Cambodia
Ministry of Environment spokesman Neth Pheaktra said that the discovery of many rare animals, including wild dogs in Cambodia, shows that protected areas are well protected and conserved and have become a rich habitat.
Joint pledge made to back sustainable-rice platform in Kingdom
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries’ General Directorate of Agriculture, Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF), Wildlife Conservation Society, French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (Cirad) and Swisscontact have penned a memorandum of agreement (MoA) to this end.
Chinese companies leverage new technology to protect environment under the BRI
China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC) deployed technologies to ensure eco-friendly construction of the 187-km highway. Linking the capital Phnom Penh to the largest seaport province of Preah Sihanouk, the highway will cut travel time from five hours to just two.
Cambodia embraces dirty energy fearing drought-driven shortages
After a year of droughts resulted in an electricity crisis in Cambodia, where the majority of power comes from hydropower dams, authorities sought solutions – largely in the shape of emissions-heavy resources like coal. In 2015-16, successive droughts in Cambodia impacted 2.5 million people, most in rural areas, who depend largely on agriculture as a source of livelihood.
Critically endangered giant muntjac spotted in Cambodia
Also referred to as large-antlered muntjac, it is one of the many other critically endangered species placed in the Red List of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).