The Ministry of Environment is extending the strategies it employs to combat wildlife crimes to include money laundering and terrorism financing. Ministry spokesman Neth Pheaktra said it is also forming an environmental code to tighten enforcement of natural resource crimes, especially the illegal wildlife trade.
A senior Ministry of Environment official said pangolins were the most traded species of mammal in the world due to their use in traditional Chinese medicine while in Cambodia the species is widely threatened by illegal hunting and trapping carried out to supply that industry.