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This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Rainforest Investigations Network where Gerald Flynn is a fellow. SIEM PANG, Cambodia — “Us locals cannot source benefits from the forest anymore, only the Oknhas can find benefits in the forest now,” Samnang* said one afternoon in January, using a Khmer word for tycoons. His farm […]
In January 2020, filmmaker Sean Gallagher traveled to Cambodia with a camera, drone, and a mission: to create a film revealing the impacts of deforestation. Riding on the backs of motorbikes driven by local activists, Gallagher spent several weeks venturing deep into protected forests in Cambodia to film bulldozers pushing down trees, and intentionally lit […]
Environmental activists in Cambodia fear for their privacy and freedom of expression as the country introduces a new China-style internet firewall
The pace of deforestation has increased in line with the government’s clampdown on environmental defenders. February 25, 2021 This 2013 file photo shows a clearing in the middle of the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary in northern Cambodia. Credit: Sebastian Strangio Advertisement In Cambodia, few protected areas are under as much threat from deforestation as the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary. For years, this protected area, which covers some 430,000 hectares across Kratie, Stung Treng, Kampong Thom, and Preah Vihear provinces in north-central Cambodia, has been gradually hollowed out by logging ...
6 minute read Cambodian villagers pray during a rally against the destruction of the Prey Lang forest, in front of the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 18 August 2011, TANG CHHIN SOTHY/AFP via Getty Images Civil society groups in Cambodia denounced the arrest of five forestry activists who were collecting evidence of widespread illegal logging inside the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary. This statement was originally published on cchrcambodia.org on 9 February 2021. We, the undersigned groups, urge the Ministry of Environment to stop their campaign of harassment against ...