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Major clothing brands contribute to deforestation in Cambodia, report finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 3 Dec 2021
Furniture CIFOR

Amid a furniture boom, timber certification is just a start, say experts

Carolyn Cowan 2 Dec 2021
Mother Nature Cambodia

Newly released Cambodian activists honored among Front Line Defenders awardees

Carolyn Cowan 29 Nov 2021

The Greater Mekong region: A hotspot of wildlife and crime

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 17 Nov 2021

The great Koh Kong land rush: Areas stripped of protection by Cambodian gov’t being bought up

Gerald Flynn 7 Oct 2021
Crocodile-WWF

Snapshot of hatchlings raises hopes for Siamese crocs in northeast Cambodia

Carolyn Cowan 24 Sep 2021
Sesan River, Cambodia

Cambodian dam a ‘disaster’ for local communities, rights group says

Carolyn Cowan 18 Aug 2021

USAID redirects funding in Cambodia as future of Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary hangs in the balance

Gerald Flynn 5 Aug 2021
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
Giant muntjac

Cambodia’s first giant muntjac sighting highlights key mountain habitat

Carolyn Cowan 30 Jun 2021
Cambodia activist Sun Ratha

Rights groups demand end to Cambodia’s persecution of green activists

Carolyn Cowan 23 Jun 2021

Cleaning up Cambodia’s kitchens could curb deforestation, climate change

Marissa Carruthers 22 Jun 2021

Chinese special economic zones hotspots for wildlife trafficking, surveys say

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 11 Jun 2021

A buffer zone for Thailand, last great hope for wildlife in Southeast Asia (commentary)

Gregory McCann 7 Jun 2021

Wildlife trafficking, like everything else, has gone online during COVID-19

Imelda Abano, Leilani Chavez 1 Jun 2021
Activist Chhoeun Daravy was arrested August, 2020. Image courtesy of LICADHO (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Outrage as Cambodian court convicts activists for inciting ‘social chaos’

Gerald Flynn 14 May 2021

Casinos, condos and sugar cane: How a Cambodian national park is being sold down the river

James Fair 4 May 2021
Keo Seima forest. Image by user Pygathrix nigripes via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Deforestation ramps up in Cambodia’s Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary

Morgan Erickson-Davis 26 Apr 2021

Cambodia puts its arduous titling process for Indigenous land up for review

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 15 Apr 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
Drone image of alleged clearing for luxury residential estates in Bokor National Park. Image courtesy of Mother Nature Cambodia.

‘A disgrace’: Luxury housing plans threaten Cambodia’s Bokor National Park

Kit Humphrey 25 Feb 2021

Cambodian environmental activists reportedly arrested

Mongabay 5 Feb 2021
A drone image reveals trees cut from the Cardamom Mountains being processed in a yard. Photo courtesy of Marcus Hardtke.

Alleged gov’t-linked land grabs threaten Cambodia’s Cardamom Mountains

Kit Humphrey 1 Dec 2020
A rotating blade used for small-scale wood-processing. Photo by Chris Humphrey for Mongabay.

Under cover of COVID-19, loggers plunder Cambodian wildlife sanctuary

Kit Humphrey 31 Aug 2020

In Cambodia, a sweeping new environment code languishes in legal limbo

Andrew Nachemson 26 Aug 2020

The Large-antlered muntjac — Southeast Asia’s mystery deer (Commentary)

Joel Berger, Minh Nguyen 3 Aug 2020
Pardalis chameleon (Furcifer pardalis), a resident of the Masoala Peninsula in northeastern Madagascar, where illegal rosewood logging has taken a heavy toll on forests. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

COVID-19 lockdown precipitates deforestation across Asia and South America

James Fair 3 Jul 2020

Vietnamese agribusiness firm HAGL accused of clearing indigenous land in Cambodia

Michael Tatarski 15 Jun 2020

Tigers threatened by a vast network of planned roads across Asia

Liz Kimbrough 21 May 2020

‘They never intended to conserve it’: Outcry as loggers gut Cambodian reserve

Andrew Nachemson 13 May 2020
A sawmill near the Think Biotech concession.

Cambodian firm accused of creating a ‘monopoly in the timber business’

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 13 May 2020

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