Koh Kapi Ramsar News Today

The environment ministry’s freshwater wetlands conservation department, in collaboration with NatureLife Cambodia, held a technical consultation workshop this week on the ongoing planning and zoning work in the Boeung Prek Lapouv protected landscape, which has been proposed as a Ramsar site.

The Koh Kong Provincial Administration held a March 30 consultative meeting to establish a working group that would be tasked with managing the Koh Kapi Ramsar site.

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — In July, conservationists in Cambodia sounded the alarm over a regulation that saw eight protected areas in Koh Kong province collectively lose territory twice the size of Phnom Penh, the country’s capital. Officials said the move, affecting nearly 127,000 hectares (314,000 acres) under Sub-decree No. 30, was meant to grant land […]