A protected nature reserve was spared complete destruction when Cambodia’s prime minister stepped in after a public outcry. Replanting has begun to restore the forest – but with saplings that could be ...

Cambodia lost around 1.59 million hectares of tree cover between 2001 and 2014, and just 3 percent remains covered in primary forest. This deforestation has led to the decline of wildlife habitat ...

Aerial view of illegal logging in Koh Kong Province where forest activist, Chut Wutty, was shot dead today. Photo by: Paul Mason USAID/Cambodia/OGD. Chut Wutty, a prominent activist against ...

Fry a tarantula, save the rainforest? Forest-based goods such as bamboo, rattan, and yes, edible spiders — a delicacy in Cambodia — can provide an incentive to protect tropical forests in the ...

O n Friday 5 February, Cambodian forest activist Ouch Leng, a Goldman Environmental Prize recipient, was arrested along with four others. They had been putting up ‘No Chainsaw’ signs and wrapping ...

Laos and Cambodia, which suffered the eighth and tenth most primary forest losses globally last year, saw their rates of loss spike. Cambodia lost 38 percent more primary forest in 2019 than the ...

The Areng valley in the Cardamom Mountain forests is at the heart of one of Cambodia's last great forests, home to 30 endangered species and a 2,000-strong Chong indigenous community. Over the last 20 ...

Of the area lost, 3.75 million hectares were primary tropical forest – sometimes called virgin rainforest – at the equivalent of 10 soccer fields every minute, WRI reported.

In 2023, the tropics lost 3.7 million hectares of primary forest — areas of natural, mature forest cover that have not been recently cleared and regrown — the analysis found.