A U.S.-government sanctioned rubber firm controlled by the family of a former RCAF general has been destroying the customary farmlands of an indigenous Jarai community within its state-granted concession, as gun-toting workers pressure farmers to sell lands at below-market price.
Government official Dy Panha received 30.79 hectares of land in northeastern Mondulkiri province cut from forest cover in a September sub-decree released publicly earlier this year and issued by Prime Minister Hun Sen, his relative.
CamboJA takes a deep dive into the MFI-aided cassava boom devastating a leading organic rice program inside a Cambodian wildlife sanctuary, highlighting the sweeping changes reshaping protected areas across Southeast Asia's forest frontiers.
Cambodia’s long term economic growth faces significant threats from climate change and could dampen prospects for becoming an upper-middle income country in the coming years, according to the Asian Development Bank (ADB) report issued last week.
A former member of the prominent environmental group Mother Nature apologized to the government, denounced his former organization and announced he would start a new NGO with the same name in a video on February 28.
Preav Hun cultivated bananas and mangos in the Areng valley of the Cardamom mountains for more than 25 years, but for the past six months Ministry of Environment officials have banned him and his indigenous Chorng neighbors from farming as the government rezones the protected area.
Mekong fishing communities in Cambodia are facing a double crisis: illegal fishing practices and the construction of upstream dams have dramatically reduced fish populations, leaving fisherfolk struggling to make a living. Many say fish farming, touted as an alternative, is a difficult transition due to lack of support and knowledge.
Kampong Thom's Sandan district: Snang An village chief Sok Heng proudly displays a photo of his new home, constructed in July 2021, as his phone’s background image. But Late Cheng Mining Development, a gold mining firm with ties to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s bodyguard unit, now threatens to dismantle the home and has taken over his neighbors’ farmlands, he says.