Treng Ramsar News Today

A proposed Cambodian commune’s Irrawaddy dolphin festival aims to reflect the value of the animals while promoting conservation efforts – but its last one died two years ago.

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.

High water levels during the dry season at the Stung Treng Ramsar site have been catastrophic for its unique ecosystem and residents

STUNG TRENG, Cambodia — A long-dormant plan to build a mega dam on the mainstream of the Mekong River in Cambodia’s northeastern Stung Treng province appears to have been revived this year, leaving locals immediately downstream of the potential sites worried and experts confounded. First studied in 2007, the 1,400-megawatt hydropower project, known as the […]

Minister of Environment Say Sam Al has announced the commissioning of natural heritage site logos.

It poses a high risk of natural disasters to the ecology and livelihood of millions of people