Over the next few years Think Biotech has plans to plant more than 30,000 more hectares of trees – and then 120,000ha over the next five to 10 years.
Category: Cambodia
Pulitzer Center Grantee Discusses Award-Winning Film ‘Cambodia Burning’ at Environmental Film Festival
The documentary—which has been recognized by the Earth Photo Awards, the British Photography Awards, the Drone Photo Awards, and the Social Impact Media Awards—uses a combination of drone footage and poetry to explore the rapid deforestation in Cambodia, as well as its impact on the Cambodian people. Estimates say only 3 percent of primary forest remains in the country.
Study follows tagged migratory fish in Mekong
“The fastest moving fish in the study was a tagged Wallago attu catfish, which moved 52 river kilometres downstream in eight hours and moved a total of 88 river kilometres over the course of the study. It is the longest range recorded,” it added.
Cambodia is expected to take flight in a post-Covid world
Avitourism is predicted to be popular with travel-deprived ecotourists and is among the fastest-growing eco-tourism trends For habitat-rich, cash-poor countries such as Cambodia, it has the potential to help conserve threatened species
Are Cambodia’s freshwater fish in trouble?
Destructive fishing and hydropower dams on free flowing rivers are two main reasons for the extinction of some freshwater fish in Cambodia including the Giant Barb and Isok, a report by World Wide Fund for Nature.
Talks on Cambodia-South Korea bridge construction begin
The bridge construction will connect Phnom Penh’s Chroy Chongva area to the west of the Mekong river with Kandal province’s Lvea Em district, to the east of river. The government previously announced that part of the Lvea Aem district will be upgraded to become a district of Phnom Penh.
Fish stocks collapse in lower Mekong. Experts blame ‘Chinese Dams’ for crisis
Cambodia’s dwindling fish stocks have put the spotlight once again on the stressed waterways of the Mekong river. Fish stocks are at low levels and experts blame factors such as Chinese hydropower for projects upstream for the dramatic drop at the lowest level.
Big cats dwindling from Cambodia’s forests
Big cats like Indochinese leopards and tigers are no longer found in the Cardamom Mountains, making the clouded leopard now the biggest wildcat around.
Cambodia in the middle of road-construction frenzy
Many of these projects are being built with financial assistance from China. The completion of the above projects will help boost Cambodia’s economy, which in turn, will lead to strong demand for apartments, condos and other types of properties among locals and foreigners.
Dry-season rice crop exceeds target by more than 200,000ha
Although Cambodia and other countries in the Mekong River Basin had encountered challenging problems such as the high levels of the Mekong River during the rainy season last year, it has led to some provinces growing a lot more rice crops.