Phnom Nam Lear News Today

The My Village Organisation (MVi) in Mondulkiri province has launched a competition to find innovative solutions to three issues: a reduction in the use of luxury timber for furniture, an end to the purchase and consumption of bush meat and a halt to improper disposal of garbage.

The Ministry of Environment is set to submit two of the Kingdom’s conservation areas for inclusion on the UNESCO’s World Natural Heritage list.

The Ministry of Environment, in collaboration with UNESCO, organised a three-day workshop from May 23-25, aimed at assisting its officials and stakeholders to prepare Cambodia’s tentative World Heritage list. The list will identify candidates for World Heritage Site status, which is given to natural areas and diverse locations that are of global prominence.

A working group of the Ministry of Environment’s Department of Biodiversity – in collaboration with the Mondulkiri provincial Department of Environment – is conducting research and assessment of the biodiversity status of a mountain in the Phnom Nam Lear Wildlife Sanctuary, in order to compile the documents necessary to list it as a UNESCO Geopark.

Share A landscape view from the Phnom Nam Lear Wildlife Sanctuary in Bou Sra commune’s Putert village in Mondulkiri’s Pech Chreada district. Post Staff Mondulkiris Phnom Nam Lear Community Protected Area recognised Sun, 18 April 2021 Recognition of the Phnom Nam Lear Community Protected Area in Mondulkiri province has been announced by the Ministry of Environment. The area covers more than 600ha and the local community expects that the remaining resources to be fully protected. Environment...