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Aug 22, 2024 | 
hardstories.org | Danielle Keeton-Olsen |Meng Kroypunlok |Nathaphob Sungkate |Kong Sreyrath
Machinery is used to dig up a section of Boeng Tamok as part of a sweeping number of sub-decrees that have privatised large swathes of one of Phnom Penh’s last lakes.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
mekongeye.com | Eung Sea |Meng Kroypunlok
KOH KONG, CAMBODIA – Communities and activists have called for Koh Kong Krao, a pristine island off Cambodia’s western coast, to be declared a marine national park, citing the benefits of sustainable tourism and local livelihoods. For many, declaring the island a national park can’t come soon enough.
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Mar 30, 2024 | 
cambojanews.com | Meng Kroypunlok
Ploek Phyrom sees her identity as a Bunong Indigenous person reflected in the trees, valleys and ponds of Mondulkiri’s Sokdom commune. She remembers place names in Bunong language, like a part of their plantation area called “krom yong,” translating roughly to “along the forest.” But she says much of the village memory of these places is fading, as the land was taken over by an economic land concession. “Now nobody calls it that, even the children, they don’t know it,” she said.
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Oct 9, 2023 | 
news.mongabay.com | Gerald Flynn |Andy Ball |Meng Kroypunlok
Illegal logging persists deep in the heart of Cambodia’s Chhaeb-Preah Roka Wildlife Sanctuary amid government inaction and even complicity with the loggers. Routine patrols by local activists and community members have painstakingly documented the site of each logged tree in the supposedly protected area, even as these community patrols have been banned by the authorities.
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Oct 5, 2023 | 
news.mongabay.com | Gerald Flynn |Andy Ball |Meng Kroypunlok
A road carved from a reforestation concession into the heart of Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary in Cambodia appears to be facilitating the illegal logging and trafficking of valuable timber, a Mongabay investigation has revealed. The road originates in the concession of Think Biotech, a company previously implicated in forestry crimes, but its director denies being involved in the new road.
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Aug 30, 2023 | 
news.mongabay.com | Gerald Flynn |Meng Kroypunlok
The Cambodian government has suspended a planned marble mine inside a wildlife sanctuary that it had approved just months earlier. It’s not clear why this commercial extractive concession inside a protected area was approved in the first place, or why it’s now been suspended (but not canceled). The mine would have threatened an important REDD+ project in Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary that benefits both local communities and the area’s biodiversity.
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Jul 25, 2023 | 
news.mongabay.com | Gerald Flynn |Meng Kroypunlok
A Cambodian tycoon notorious for his association with illegal logging has expanded his grip over the country’s largest national park, with a swath of forest awarded to his son’s rubber company. This gives Ly Yong Phat, a ruling party senator, and his family members effective control of tens of thousands of hectares of land inside Botum Sakor National Park.
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Jul 19, 2023 | 
news.mongabay.com | Gerald Flynn |Meng Kroypunlok
For decades Cambodia’s Botum Sakor National Park has been carved up and the land handed out to companies as economic concessions, at the expense of the ecosystem and local communities. In 2021, a massive swath of the park, including its densest expanse of forest, was handed over to the Royal Group, led by politically connected business tycoon Kith Meng.
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Feb 10, 2023 | 
vodenglish.news | Meng Kroypunlok
The Candlelight Party in Kampong Thom province filed a police complaint against a ruling party member for allegedly destroying a party banner in Stong district. The party filed the complaint on February 6 to Stong district police, alleging that Chhay Cheng, a Cambodian People’s Party member, had dismantled their party billboard in Krasang village on the afternoon of February 5. The complaint asked for the billboard to be returned and legal action to be initiated against Cheng.
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Feb 8, 2023 | 
vodenglish.news | Meng Kroypunlok
The Social Affairs Ministry said it plans to reduce the number of people detained at Phnom Penh’s Prey Speu center, months after a local NGO said detainees had died at the center in 2022. Social Affairs Minister Vong Soth met with the representatives of the United Nations’ human rights office in Cambodia on Tuesday and said the ministry was taking steps to reduce the number of people detained at the center.
