Kampot Province to Accelerate New Beach Development to Lure Tourists
AKP Phnom Penh, August 05, 2020 --

A new beach development project in Teuk Chhou district, Kampot province, has been proposed by a private company to attract more tourists to visit the coastal province, some 150 kilometres southwest of Phnom Penh capital.

The new beach development plan was discussed between Kampot provincial administration and the developer –IGB (Cambodia) Co., Ltd. in a meeting early this week under the chairmanship of H.E. Cheav Tay, Governor of Kampot province.

Mr. Soy Sinol, Director of the Provincial Tourism Department, said that the meeting was aimed to speed up the bay development to serve tourists.

The new beach is part of the firm’s beach resort development project and in the first step, the firm planned to develop a 2,000-metre bay in Boeung Touk commune of Teuk Chhou district, about 8 kilometres west of Kampot provincial city.

“The project is invested by private company, but we are pushing the firm to accelerate its development work and this time we want the firm to develop the new beach first,” Mr. Sinol told AKP on Tuesday.

The firm’s investment project has been approved by the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC), stated Mr. Sinol, who could not provide the specific date of project’s approval.
- AKP

CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Thu Jun 20, 2019 8:29 pm
GEF aids fishing communities in adapting to climate change
19 June 2019
A five-year project known as CamAdapt, which aims to help coastal fishing communities and ecosystems in four coastal provinces – Kampot, Kep, Koh Kong and Preah Sihanouk – adapt to climate change, is expected to start early next year.

The project is being funded to the tune of $4.35 million by the Least Developed Country Fund of the Global Environmental Facility (GEF), the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in Cambodia told The Post on Monday.

Climate Adaptation and Resilience in Cambodia’s Coastal Fishery Dependent Communities (CamAdapt) will be implemented by the FAO in Cambodia and the Ministry of Environment’s Fisheries Administration (FiA).

Participants included officials from several ministries – Environment, notably the Department of Marine and Coastal Zone Conservation; Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction; Water Resources and Meteorology; and Women’s Affairs – and from fishing communities, NGOs and the FAO in Cambodia.
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ ... ate-change

UPDATE

Coastal Fishing Communities to Benefit from a GEF’s Project to Improve Livelihood and Marine Ecosystem
24/01/21 22:19
Phnom Penh (FN), Jan. 24 – Cambodia’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) along with the Ministry of Environment, which is the Global Environmental Facility (GEF)’s Focal Point Ministry, on 22 January, co-singed (sic) a five-year project agreement on "Climate Adaptation and Resilience in Cambodia’s Coastal Fishery Dependent Communities”, known in short as “CamAdapt”.

“This five-year project will help coastal fishing communities and protected areas in the Cambodia’s four coastal provinces – Kampot, Kep, Koh Kong and Preah Sihanouk to improve their livelihoods by increasing their adaptive capacity to climate change, while improving the marine ecosystem and biodiversity,” according to the press release seen by Fresh News on Sunday.

Read full press release below.
=FRESH NEWS

OhFuck yeah yeah
I paid the honourable Min of Tourism the honour of reading his PhD thesis.
A fab doc, Peam Krassoap Wildlife Sanctuary as a community based eco-tourism hub and all the add-ons.
ANuther grand plan for our mangroves.

At least Grand Plans are under no environmental threat in Cambodia. 'Still breeding like flies it seems.

Can hardly wait for Cambodias first ever oil spill. How long dya reckon?

SternAAlbifrons wrote: ↑Mon Jan 25, 2021 12:42 am OhFuck yeah yeah
I paid the honourable Min of Tourism the honour of reading his PhD thesis.
A fab doc, Peam Krassoap Wildlife Sanctuary as a community based eco-tourism hub and all the add-ons.
ANuther grand plan for our mangroves.

At least Grand Plans are under no environmental threat in Cambodia. 'Still breeding like flies it seems.

Yup quite a salad of all the latest eco buzzwords!

Yep CanKnuckle, lol - including supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

canucklhead wrote: ↑Mon Jan 25, 2021 2:30 pm Can hardly wait for Cambodias first ever oil spill. How long dya reckon?

Good question, CanKnuckleOn, and very relevant with Krisenergy starting up.
Their kind of drilling operation is fraught with risk, from leakage as well as big spills.
With the marginal oil price and KE's catastrophic financial situation you can be sure the will not be employing "Worlds Best Practice" - which you need.
The wind turns onshore with the start of the Wet - *exactly when the monsoons will make drilling operations even more vulnerable to spills and leaks.
So, Answer, probably May this year.
And mangroves are a perfect oil trap.

The mangroves in Koh Kong have already had quite a bit of oil spilt into its guts
This is oil from the sand mining boats - washed deep into the quiet, still, (otter) parts of the system
Not great photos but you get the picture.
First and only time i have found a floating dead Kingfisher deep in its home. No oil on the feathers but very possibly the damage is inside. It was slicked all around where i found this bird - on the surface, all over the mud and coating the mangrove roots.

Heres hoping it doesnt happen. Likely if there is a spill nobody will say anything till sme fishermen or the like raise the alarm.

When did you take those pics?

At the hight of the sand mining. 2012 ish.

lol. Flock me! was it that long ago? Seems like last month.
The Nightmare.

Thank God for Mother Nature.