Greed for Land Consumes Lakes, Forests: Environment 2022
An insatiable craving for land uprooted several communities in 2022, not to mention the ecosystems destroyed in its path.
Danielle Keeton-Olsen Dec 27, 9:46 am
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An insatiable craving for land uprooted several communities in 2022, not to mention the ecosystems destroyed in its path.
A group of 300 Phnom Penh young people frustrated with trash piling up around the Mekong river are using social media to organize cleanups, while another effort tackles trash by boat.
Around 10,000 hectares around the Tonle Sap lake have had protections relaxed, purportedly to legitimize families already using the land, while a port project linked to tycoon Try Pheap received 150 hectares off the coast of Kampot.
Hun Sen said he would visit the flooded provinces around the Tonle Sap lake starting Friday, and focused his speech on criticism that he was electioneering by doing so.
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday sentenced a senior Kampong Chhnang police officer to three years and six months in prison for illegally clearing flooded forests around the Tonle Sap lake from 2017-2021.
A Land Ministry official said development of Boeng Tamok in northern Phnom Penh was a higher priority than the water body’s preservation, adding that only a lake like the Tonle Sap was worth preserving.
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Thursday sentenced a senior Kampong Chhnang police officer to four years in prison for illegally clearing flooded forests around the Tonle Sap lake between 2011 and 2021.
Phnom Penh officials said they will begin reconstructing a road that collapsed into the Tonle Sap River in Chroy Changva district earlier this year, another instance of the riverbank collapsing due to erosion.
The Anti-Corruption Unit closed its investigation into a Kampong Chhnang ex-governor whose vast tracts of protected flooded-forest land were confiscated amid a crackdown on illegal encroachment.
Candlelight Party official Hem Chhil was released on bail by the Appeal Court on Thursday, months after he was arrested for alleged illegal fishing in Pursat province.
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