Government Announces Five New Protected Forests
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Government Announces Five New Protected Forests
Government Announces Five New Protected Forests
by Kuch Naren | April 2, 2016
Following Prime Minister HE’s announcement on Thursday that the government would extend protected status to more forestland, the Environment Ministry on Friday released full details on five new protected areas covering a total of 950,000 hectares.
In a statement, the ministry said the new protected areas comprised parts of Prey Lang forest in Kompong Thom, Kratie and Stung Treng provinces; Prey Chrak Robieng Khang Tbong forest in Koh Kong, Pursat and Kompong Speu provinces; Prey Preah Rokar forest in Preah Vihear province; Prey Siem Pang Lech forest in Stung Treng province; and Prey Voen Sai forest in Stung Treng and Ratanakkiri.
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by Kuch Naren | April 2, 2016
Following Prime Minister HE’s announcement on Thursday that the government would extend protected status to more forestland, the Environment Ministry on Friday released full details on five new protected areas covering a total of 950,000 hectares.
In a statement, the ministry said the new protected areas comprised parts of Prey Lang forest in Kompong Thom, Kratie and Stung Treng provinces; Prey Chrak Robieng Khang Tbong forest in Koh Kong, Pursat and Kompong Speu provinces; Prey Preah Rokar forest in Preah Vihear province; Prey Siem Pang Lech forest in Stung Treng province; and Prey Voen Sai forest in Stung Treng and Ratanakkiri.
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Re: Government Announces Five New Protected Forests
And they have determined that the best way to protect all that forest is to put it under lock and key at the local Governors compound.
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Re: Government Announces Five New Protected Forests
meaning it belongs to Mr HE, he can do what ever he wants with it, ie rent to his family for plundering, but civilians cant do shit with it.
Money is not the problem, the problem is no money
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Re: Government Announces Five New Protected Forests
https://www.globalwitness.org/media/ima ... h-1280.png
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_in_Cambodia
They are even logging in Virachey National Park.
UPDATE w/photos :
Summary in photos:
And don't give me the shit about shitsville - the rot of illegal wood spreads right through the country - this wood has gone from the Laos/Vietnam border in NE Cambodia to SV without a hitch, despite police check-points and weigh-stations for trucks.
No way this means that Cambodia cares for it's forests. Just look at how the government are protecting the nature reserves now:bolueeleh wrote:meaning it belongs to Mr HE, he can do what ever he wants with it, ie rent to his family for plundering, but civilians cant do shit with it.
Cambodia has one of the highest rates of deforestation in the world, third to only Nigeria and Vietnam, according to a 2005 report conducted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).[1]
Cambodia's primary rainforest cover fell dramatically from over 70% in 1970 at the end of the Vietnam War to just 3.1% in 2007.[2] Deforestation is accelerating at an alarming rate, with overall rate of total forest loss at nearly 75% since the end of the 1990s. In total, Cambodia lost 25,000 square kilometres of forest between 1990 and 2005, 3,340 square kilometres of which was primary forest. As of 2007, less than 3,220 square kilometres of primary forest remain, with the result that the future sustainability of Cambodia's forest reserves is under severe threat.[3]
According to a 2015 report, U.K. environmental rights group Global Witness places Cambodian timber magnate Try Pheap at the center of a large illegal logging enterprise driving Cambodia's rarest tree species to the brink of extinction. The report concludes that the operation of the illegal logging is being done with the collusion of government and military officials with virtually all of the illegally cut and transported wood going to China[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_in_Cambodia
They are even logging in Virachey National Park.
UPDATE w/photos :
https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campai ... of-luxury/Follow our investigators as they track illegal luxury timber from Cambodia’s Virachey National Park to Sihanoukville port, where it is loaded onto boats bound for Hong Kong.
Summary in photos:
And don't give me the shit about shitsville - the rot of illegal wood spreads right through the country - this wood has gone from the Laos/Vietnam border in NE Cambodia to SV without a hitch, despite police check-points and weigh-stations for trucks.
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