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.
Category: Cambodia
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.
Reporters Without Borders Asks the Authorities to Release a Cambodian Journalist
Soi Oudom regularly reported on longstanding land disputes between local farming communities and powerful district officials, according to a statement issued by the human-rights group LICADHO.
Threats against Cambodian forest defenders escalate amid COVID-19
Since the beginning of the year, illegal logging within Cambodia’s Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary has escalated, as have efforts by the government to silence those who are monitoring and exposing this destruction.
Ecotourism collapse threatens Cambodia’s wildlife
The rangers’ equipment, food and wages are provided in entirety by the Thailand-based Golden Triangle Asian Elephant Foundation and CTC – both dependent on tourism for their income now reduced to zero.
Ten Ibis nests found in Ratanakkiri
While six of the nests have successfully fledged 12 young that number disappointed bird conservationists as it represented a decrease over the last five years, according to the organisation.
WWF expresses sorrow over loss of globally endangered wildlife
The two Banteng are believed to have been shot dead a few days inside Phnom Prich Wildlife Sanctuary, Mondulkiri province.
Virus puts Cambodia oil production into question
COVID-19 has now affected the implementation of Cambodia’s first oil extraction project.
‘They never intended to conserve it’: Outcry as loggers gut Cambodian reserve
Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary, which stretches across five provinces in northern Cambodia, contains one of the region’s last remaining large areas of old growth rainforest.