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The community in the Chraing Krahorm area of Kampong Thom province’s Prasat Sambor district has asked for immediate intervention from the provincial authorities to stop the encroachment on their 898ha of community land by outsiders who they say have been constructing buildings and planting cashew trees.
Two ministries and a wildlife NGO are working together to conduct research on avian influenza in wild birds in protected areas as well as in domesticated birds in an effort to detect any unknown outbreaks of the virus and promote awareness of the risks posed by avian virus transmission to humans.
Forestry Administration (FiA) head Keo Omaliss has welcomed a US firm’s intent to invest in the cultivation and processing of eucalyptus and acacia trees for domestic supply and export, mainly to the US.
Officials and lawyers are in ongoing discussions about amending the forest, fisheries and protected areas laws to transfer natural resource protection and conservation functions from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries to sub-national level administrations.
Eighteen monkeys living in the neighbourhood of Srah Chak and Wat Phnom communes in the capital’s Daun Penh district were rounded up and taken to the Phnom Tamao Zoological Park and Wildlife Rescue Center (PTWRC) to protect the animals and nearby residents.