PHNOM PENH At last year’s COP26, the annual U.N. climate summit, Cambodian Environment Minister Say Samal voiced his support for more carbon credit projects in the country as part of his request for greater climate financing. Notably, though, he avoided making Cambodia a signatory to the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forest and Land Use, […]
PHNOM PENH The early onset of Cambodia’s wet season had seen the rain fall thick over Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary, turning freshly cut paths through the forest into a near-impassible slick of churned-up mud. But the torrential weather had done little to deter local loggers, who rode out of the beleaguered protected area carrying […]
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After decades of depredations, both real and imagined, Vietnam remains the main bogeyman of Cambodian nationalism.
July 06, 2021
A Catholic church in Chong Kneas, a predominantly Vietnamese village on the edge of the Tonle Sap lake in Siem Reap, Cambodia.
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Prominent Cambodian human rights organizations ignore discrimination and violations committed against ethnic Vietnamese communities in the country, fearful of backlash from nationalists and supporters of the now-dissolved opposition party, according to sources who spoke to The Diplomat.
Since early June, for instance, Cambodian authorities have been evicting
hundreds of ethnic Vietnamese people from their floating homes on the banks of the Tonle Sap river, ostensibly as part of a “clean up” of the capital ahead of Cambodia’s assumption of the ASEAN chairmanship next year and its hosting of the Southeast Asian Games in 2023.
Crocodylus siamensis), and Cambodia’s largest concentration of Asian elephants (
Elephas maximus).
Sunda pangolins (Manis javanica) are critically endangered. Image by Frendi Apen Irawan via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SS 2.0).
The first biodiversity survey of the Cardamom Mountains in 2000 found that although they cover just 6% of Cambodia’s land mass, they account for most of Cambodia’s large mammal species and half of Cambodia’s known bird, reptile and amphibian species. On the coast, the Cardamom Mountains connect to Peam Krasop Wildlife Sanctuary, which encompasses some of the largest remaining pristine mangrove forests in the Gulf of Thailand and part of one of four Ramsar sites in Cambodia.