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When considering the Project Zone and the Project Area together, the Southern Cardamom REDD+ Project overlaps with all or parts of six protected areas under the purview of the MOE: parts of the Botum Sakor National Park, the Central Cardamom National Park, the Peam Krasop Wildlife Sanctuary, the Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary, the Southern Cardamom National Park, and the Tatai Wildlife Sanctuary (see Map 2). The REDD+ project encompasses more than half a million hectares of land. Click to

PHNOM PENH — Two new hydropower dams approved by Cambodian authorities on Nov. 21 look set to bring further fragmentation to the dense rainforests of the Cardamom Mountains. If built as planned along the Kong Hen and the Russei Chrum rivers in southern Cambodia, both dams will be constructed inside Cardamom National Park, and are […]

The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) has revealed that it approved 27 new investment projects in the Kingdom’s special economic zones (SEZ) in the first half of the year, with registered capital totalling more than $300 million and the expectation of creating more than 20,000 jobs.

The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) has announced that it approved 113 new investment and expansion projects with combined registered capital of about $1.1 billion in the first half of the year, of which 65.38 per cent came from Chinese investors.

LMC-funded water resource protection, green development project inaugurated in SW Cambodia-

A demonstration project for integrated management of typical small river basins, funded by the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) Special Fund, has been inaugurated here.

A Mongabay investigation has uncovered a logging operation being run out of Koh Kong provincial prison that gets its timber from the site of a new

This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Rainforest Investigations Network where Gerald Flynn was a fellow. *Names have been changed to protect sources who said they feared reprisals from the authorities. KOH KONG, Cambodia — In April 2022, the sound of a sawmill cut through the murky dawn that was steaming over Cambodia’s western […]

The ministries of health and environment called for increased public awareness throughout the country, especially in rural areas, about the risks of Malaria.

Wildlife Alliance and its partner Baseet are hosting a travelling wildlife exhibition and concert programme in four locations in Koh Kong and Phnom Penh to raise awareness of the benefits of conserving the Cardamom rainforest.