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Ream Sreyrath joins a patrol with Anlong Koh Kang fishing community in October, 2023. (supplied)

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Pushing Against Traditional Gender Norms, Female Volunteers Protect Community Fisheries on Stung Treng Patrols

29 Feb 2024 11:32 AM|
Kong Raksmey|

Long before Ream Sreyrath, 23, first joined her Stung Treng community’s volunteer fisheries protection patrol, she’d been curious about the work of the mostly male crews who spent long hours cruising the Mekong River.

Forest in Preah Vihear province that's been cleared for farming. Photo taken on April 18, 2021. PLCN

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Increasingly Rampant Deforestation in Cambodia, Study Finds

27 Jan 2022 4:37 PM|

Cambodia has lost some 2.5 million hectares of tree cover over the past two decades, a new report by an environmental monitoring group shows, with one of the lead authors saying the government is allowing illegal logging to happen “with impunity.”

Villagers set up tents to guard disputed forest in Kampong Speu province’s Oral district. Photo taken on January 17, 2022. CamboJA/ Sorn Sarath

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Villagers Camp Out, Patrol Forest Being Cleared by Soldiers

24 Jan 2022 6:35 PM|

“There is only community forest left where we can feed cows because the other areas around are private land concessions,” said the father of three young children.

Students study at Chrakcha Primary School which is affected by the dust from Ly Yong Phat’s surgarcane factory in Kampong Speu province’s Oral district. Photo taken on January 18, 2022. CamboJA/ Khuon Narim.

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Dust from Ly Yong Phat’s Sugarcane Plantation a Hazard for School Children

21 Jan 2022 5:29 PM|

“We have to stay inside the classroom when the wind blows and we cannot even eat meals outside,” said one teacher.

A general view of the rice paddy fields on the Tonle Sap lake at Samraong Sen village in Kampong Chhnang province. Picture taken December 20, 2021. CamboJA/ Pring Samrang

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Confiscation of flooded forest lands hit thousands of locals along the Tonle Sap

23 Dec 2021 8:28 PM|

“We do not oppose the government’s measure to protect the flooded forestland, but the government should allocate some land for people because we have farmed the land for a long time,” he said

Kak Sovann Chhay smiles as his mother Prum Chantha cries and hugs him after his release from jail in Phnom Penh, November 10, 2021. CamboJA/ Pring Samrang

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Ratanakkiri environmental activist convicted of clearing forest as more activists released

11 Nov 2021 8:30 AM|

Environmental activist Chhorn Phalla was sentenced to five years in prison on Wednesday after being convicted of clearing state forest land in Ratanakkiri province. Civil society groups decried what they described as an attempt to silence an activist who had been working to protect Cambodia’s natural resources and indigenous land.

Met Malen patrols the forest and protects natural resources from loggers in Phnom Chreap Treyksan community, April 2020. Supplied

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Behind one young woman’s fight against illegal logging

5 Nov 2021 9:46 AM|

“We get a lot of threats from those criminals, they don’t cooperate with us,” she said. “They are not happy with us when we have arguments and remove their sawmills.”

Environment

Pushing Against Traditional Gender Norms, Female Volunteers Protect Community Fisheries on Stung Treng Patrols

Increasingly Rampant Deforestation in Cambodia, Study Finds

Villagers Camp Out, Patrol Forest Being Cleared by Soldiers

Dust from Ly Yong Phat’s Sugarcane Plantation a Hazard for School Children

Ratanakkiri environmental activist convicted of clearing forest as more activists released

Behind one young woman’s fight against illegal logging

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Pushing Against Traditional Gender Norms, Female Volunteers Protect Community Fisheries on Stung Treng Patrols

Increasingly Rampant Deforestation in Cambodia, Study Finds

Villagers Camp Out, Patrol Forest Being Cleared by Soldiers

Dust from Ly Yong Phat’s Sugarcane Plantation a Hazard for School Children

Confiscation of flooded forest lands hit thousands of locals along the Tonle Sap

Ratanakkiri environmental activist convicted of clearing forest as more activists released

Behind one young woman’s fight against illegal logging

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Mass Public Support Received For Funan Techo Canal, Thwarting International Criticism, Research Report

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