Hun Sotharith recalls when he moved to Cambodia’s Tonle Sap to become a fisherman. It was the early 1990s, and the lake's freshwater swamp forest where he fished was so dense that it could take ...

The Southeast Asia and the Pacific Forests Integrated Program will bolster the health and connectivity of primary forests across the region for biodiversity, climate benefits and sustainable ...

Over the past three decades, Cambodia has lost more than 30% of its primary forest cover, and despite being established as a national park in 1993, investigations by non-profits claim to have ...

The UConn Global Environmental Remote Sensing (GERS) Lab has developed a new remote sensing method to continuously monitor ...

To maintain the integrity of these primary forests, so they can deliver biodiversity, climate, and livelihood benefits, a new Global Environment Facility (GEF) funded initiative—the Southeast Asia and ...

According to Global Forest Watch, which monitor forests using satellites, the country lost 24 per cent of its tree cover, some 2.2 million ha, between 2001 and 2018, far more than Indonesia, given its ...

From 2001 to 2015, a third of Cambodia’s primary forests – some of the world’s most biodiverse and a key carbon sink – were cleared, and tree cover loss accelerated faster than anywhere ...

Cambodia’s Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), created in compliance with the Paris Agreement 2015, necessitate reaching net-zero Carbon Emissions with 60% of its Forest Cover, by 2050.

A record 67,000 square kilometres of primary rainforest was lost from the tropics in 2024, according to an annual assessment of satellite imagery by Global Forest Watch and the University of Maryland.

The world last year lost about 37,000 square kilometers (14,000 square miles) of tropical primary forest, an area nearly as big as Switzerland and larger than the U.S. state of Maryland.