called on the government to release detailed information about revenue it is earning from the petroleum industry, days after the country struck oil following a decades-long quest.
Category: Cambodia
Cambodian fishermen see livelihoods threatened by climate change and dam activity
Sok Piseth’s family has lived off the fish in Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake for generations. During the rainy season, the lake expands up to five times in size, creating a unique ecosystem that regularly brings new life to the lake and its surrounding wetlands.
Cambodia’s giant life-giving Tonle Sap lake in peril
More than a million people live on or around the lake, the world’s largest inland fishery, but water levels have plummeted and fish stocks dwindled because of climate change and dams upstream on the Mekong.
Trash talk: Why waste management is not a throwaway business
As waste continues to increase on Phnom Penh streets and decrease government coffers, everyone from policymakers to the public wants a solution.
Opportunity for Cambodia to set example of environmental sustainability
Cambodia could be an example of how human development can go hand in hand with environmental sustainability. This was revealed in the latest UNDP 2020 Human Development Report (HDR).
Cambodia faces plastic woes
Cambodia have expressed concern over the growing amount of plastic waste in Cambodia’s waterways, as many fishermen are now complaining that they have caught more rubbish than fish over the past five years.
Rare species losing habitats
BirdLife International Cambodia Programme has expressed concern about the presence of humans that are possibly disrupting the nesting of lesser adjutant storks in Lumphat Wildlife Sanctuary in Ratanakkiri province.
Preah Vihear park dwellers receive land to relocate
In some areas of Preah Vihear province, the authorities seized land and ordered people to leave. In the end, the land where the people had lived fell into the hands of powerful people and the private sector.
Cambodian coal-fired power plant approved
The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) has approved a $1 billion 700 megawatt (mW) coal-fired power plant in Koh Kong.