This month Cambodia's environment minister banned all logging at the Stung Meteuk hydropower project after the company was found to be illegally logging in Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary. But can a ban be enforced against such a powerful developer as Ly Yong Phat? Read in @mongabay.bsky.social
PHNOM PENH — In a rare move to combat forest crimes, Cambodian Environment Minister Eang Sophalleth on Sept. 2 banned all forest clearance at the site of a dam project in the country’s southwest. The ...
For the context, myself and Vutha Srey covered the emergence of forest crimes at the Stung Meteuk dams for @mongabay.bsky.social earlier this year. Since then, logging in the old growth forests of the Cardamoms has intensified and activists fear Ly Yong Phat is too powerful to be bound by the law.
This is the first of a two-part Mongabay series about hydropower dams in the Cardamom Mountains. Read Part Two. PURSAT/KOH KONG, Cambodia — Rumbling south down a rutted dirt track in the western Cambo...