Phoung Vantha

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Phoung Vantha is a Cambodian freelance journalist based in Phnom Penh. He covers social issues, human rights and the environment, climate change solutions and illegal logging.

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Satellite imagery from February 2025 shows the transformation of the landscape at Global Green's gold mine, which is believed to be contaminating the O'Ta Bouk River. Image provided by Google Earth, Maxar Technologies.

Toxic runoff from politically linked gold mine poisons Cambodian rivers, communities

Andy Ball, Gerald Flynn, Phoung Vantha 24 Nov 2025
Chhoeung Chheng attending the Siem Reap Water Festival in November 2024. Image courtesy of Facebook.

Environmental journalist in Cambodia shot and killed by suspected logger

Gerald Flynn, Phoung Vantha 11 Dec 2024
Fresh forest clearance inside Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary signals the beginning of an infrastructure project that will bisect the forest. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

New transmission lines cut a Cambodian rainforest sanctuary in half

Gerald Flynn, Phoung Vantha 27 Nov 2024
The access road to the Stung Tatai Leu hydropower dam cuts through forest in the Central Cardamoms National Park, Koh Kong province, Cambodia in April 2022

New report details rights abuses in Cambodia’s Southern Cardamom REDD+ project

Gerald Flynn, Phoung Vantha 13 Mar 2024
A vast chunk of protected forest is being carved out of Beng Per Wildlife Sanctuary. Sources claim Santana Agro is responsible. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

In Cambodia, an official’s cashew factory churns out timber from a protected forest

Gerald Flynn, Phoung Vantha 20 Feb 2024
One of Global Green's new mining sites in Preah Vihear province that sits inside Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary, a protected forest. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Sanctioned timber baron wins new mining concessions in Cambodia’s Prey Lang

Gerald Flynn, Phoung Vantha 23 Jan 2024
Clouded leopard. Image by Ltshears via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Carving up the Cardamoms: Conservationists fear massive land grab in Cambodia

Gerald Flynn, Andy Ball, Phoung Vantha 1 Jul 2021
A protest against land-grabbing held in front of the Land Management Ministry in September, 2020. Image by Gerald Flynn.

‘What other country would do this to its people?’ Cambodian land grab victims seek int’l justice

Gerald Flynn, Phoung Vantha 1 Apr 2021
Ouch Leng nails a sign prohibiting logging in Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary. Image courtesy of the Goldman Environmental Prize.

Cambodians fight the ‘cancer’ eating away at Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary

Gerald Flynn, Phoung Vantha 18 Mar 2021

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