Traditional slash and burn farming lands ethnic minorities in jail as authorities try to preserve country’s forests.
Tag: deforestation
Indigenous Cambodians stripped of ancestral land
Bunong people’s sacred forest becomes a rubber plantation in another land concession for the government.
Backlash pushes Hun Sen to intervene with forest development
Developers clear protected Phnom Tamao Forest before reversing course after outcry prompts prime minister’s online order.
New freeways a highway to hell for Vietnam’s forests
Vietnam’s forests under threat from new roads and projects as the country grows and expands after the pandemic
Developers target a ‘protected’ forest in Cambodia
Wildlife rescue center and environmentalists call for clarity over development plans for the Phnom Tamao Forest.
Why has illegal logging increased in the Greater Mekong?
Some countries, like Vietnam and Thailand, have successfully managed the transition to wood processing. But Cambodia, Myanmar and Laos continue to struggle with implementing and enforcing forest laws.
Major clothing brands contribute to deforestation in Cambodia, report finds
A new report suggests that the garment industry is contributing to deforestation in Cambodia due to factories relying on illegal forest wood to generate electricity.
Fight deforestation and climate change by granting indigenous rights to forests: Report
In Thailand, however, communities are being evicted from national parks under a law aimed at conserving forests.