PREAH VIHEAR, Cambodia “I would like to announce to the public and the journalists that on November 2, the Ministry of Mines and Energy requested [Prime Minister Hun Manet] not to expand mining operations nor seek further mining business in Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary,” Keo Rattanak, Cambodia’s minister of mines and energy, said at […]
Mongabay seeks to raise interest in and appreciation of wild lands and wildlife, while examining the impact of emerging trends in climate, technology, economics,and finance on conservation and development.
Name changed for the security of sources who feared retributions from authorities KAMPONG THOM, Cambodia “The company operates as they please. We’ve asked the authorities for help, but they won’t do anything for us,” said Bunnarith , a lifelong resident of Snang An village in the densely forested province of Kampong Thom. “The people living […]
PHNOM PENH “Make the bosses rich in Cambodia,” then-prime minister Hun Sen said at the 2012 inauguration of a sugar refinery in Kampong Speu province. “If a country has no millionaires, where can the poor get their money from?” This underscored the ideology at the heart of the policy of economic land concessions, or […]
PHNOM PENH Mother Nature Cambodia, one of the country’s most prominent environmental activism groups, was named one of Right Livelihood’s 2023 laureates on Sept. 28, making it the first group of Cambodians recognized in the award’s 43-year history. Born out of a refusal from the Nobel Foundation to issue awards recognizing changemakers who champion […]