Sak Setha, permanent secretary of state for the Ministry of Interior, issued a letter requesting that Koh Kong provincial governor Mithona Phuthong resolve a dispute over more than 5ha of land between the director of the Botum Sakor National Park and a resident.
This is the second article in a three-part series. Read Part One and Part Three. PHNOM PENH, Cambodia In 2017, an elephant in Cambodia’s Kirium National Park was electrocuted as it leaned against power lines in a formerly forested area. This wasn’t an isolated incident another elephant reportedly died in the same manner the previous […]
This is the first article in a three-part series. Read Part Two and Part Three. PHNOM PENH, Cambodia “I was detained for a night, the authorities had come to tear down another house, so I went to help, but ended up getting arrested instead,” said Phal Seat, a 47-year-old resident in Koh Kong province’s […]