BirdLife International Cambodia calls on those living near wildlife sanctuaries to halt pesticides use to assist in wildlife, biodiversity and natural resources protection.
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High-grade timber seized in separate K Thom raids
Kampong Thom provincial authorities on Saturday raided wood storage facilities at 11 locations and confiscated some 150 cubic metres of wood in Stoung district’s Samprorch commune as the facilities lacked proper permission letters.
Kampong Thom villagers told to register to get land in conservation are
Land concession came after O’Luo community members asked for 300ha from the conservation area in the Tonle Sap Northern Lowland Protected Landscape in Treal to use as farmland.
Cambodia plans to develop huge Sihanoukville beach
Otres 2 Beach is 1,746 metres long and the plan is to contribute boosting the image and cleanliness of the area to attract tourists, to increase the beauty of the public beach, to protect the environment and social order.
Nine mountains listed as natural heritage sites
The government designated nearly 3,500 hectares of forest land in Battambang and Banteay Meanchey provinces as natural heritage sites in a bid to facilitate the protection of biodiversity and natural ecosystems.
Vietnamese firm ‘destroys’ indigenous land in Cambodia
The rubber company, Hoang Anh Gia Lai, carried out sweeping land clearances in March on land that had been earmarked for return to the communities through a government-led demarcation process.
From city boy to protector of Cambodia’s largest dry forest
Rangers like Mr. Sin Satha from the Srepok Wildlife Sanctuary in Cambodia put themselves at great risks to help save the ecosystems that Cambodia’s threatened wildlife calls home.