Original report from Phnom Penh
11 April 2008
Nearly 300 people gathered in the provincial capital of Bantey Meanchey province Friday to protest the alleged sale of national forest land by local officials.
Human rights officials and witnesses said Friday that about 300 people gathered in front of the Thmor Pouk commune office in Thmor Pouk district to demand 215 hectares of national forest be protected, following its reported sale to businessmen in Phnom Penh by the former district governor and a commune chief.
Villagers said they needed the land, in Phnom Preah National Forest, for their livelihoods.
Current Thmor Pouk District Governor Chhum Brasert said Friday he was unaware of the sale of the forest land, as he only recently began his post.
Former Thmor Pouk governor Chhim Bunny denied allegations he had sold off part of the national forest.
He welcomed the protest of the people, saying such petitioning for the protection of forest land was "right."
So Samon, director of the district forest administration, said Friday he would investigate the allegations of the sale.
The Phnom Preah National Forest covers two districts, he said, Thmor Pouk and Preah Neat Preah, and spreads over about 18,000 hectares.
Human rights officials and witnesses said Friday that about 300 people gathered in front of the Thmor Pouk commune office in Thmor Pouk district to demand 215 hectares of national forest be protected, following its reported sale to businessmen in Phnom Penh by the former district governor and a commune chief.
Villagers said they needed the land, in Phnom Preah National Forest, for their livelihoods.
Current Thmor Pouk District Governor Chhum Brasert said Friday he was unaware of the sale of the forest land, as he only recently began his post.
Former Thmor Pouk governor Chhim Bunny denied allegations he had sold off part of the national forest.
He welcomed the protest of the people, saying such petitioning for the protection of forest land was "right."
So Samon, director of the district forest administration, said Friday he would investigate the allegations of the sale.
The Phnom Preah National Forest covers two districts, he said, Thmor Pouk and Preah Neat Preah, and spreads over about 18,000 hectares.
16 comments:
Did the local officials get green light from higher-ranking officials?
Of course they do, dude!
"Villagers said they needed the land, in Phnom Preah National Forest, for their livelihoods."
Huh? they needed forest for their livelihood? What is a shit load of crock?
We needed land for farming to keep the price of rice under control.
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Keep the rice in Cambodia to control inflation, STOP all export to Vietnam, and save the forestry. If you wipe out all natural forest, you will ecological disaster, NOT only one cannot find frogs to eat, but you'll have more infestion of insects.
Vietnames are virulent in nature; they borned to infest the host (neighbors).
Bullshit, Cambodia is just a dot on the planet. You can't change ecological shit even if you sink the entire country under the ocean; get it?
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Forest is Cambodia's natural resource. Forest can help stop natural disaster. But the bottom line is, why such a low-ranking official such as the governor of a district has the power to sign off our natural resource to a private company? In the 1970s Cambodia was covered with about 70% of forest. Today, Cambodia has only about 30% of forest left and soon it will be gone. And most of the revenue from logging go to corrupt officials' pockets like what was reported by Global Witness in the Family Tree when it implicated Hun Sen as involving in the illegal logging as well.
What natural disaster? Flood and drout is part of life in SE Asia since day1. And no, our forest standing is not at 30%, but 60%, and governor is responsible for the wellbeing of people in his province and he has the full power and rights to decide how to develop his territory.
Any disaster caused by nature is a natural disaster. The whole world use such a term to describe it.
"Bullshit, Cambodia is just a dot on the planet. You can't change ecological shit even if you sink the entire country under the ocean; get it?"
RE: IT WILL COME, THE SOUTHERN LAND MASS OF VIETNAM (FORMERLY KHMERLAND IN 1700S) WILL BE UNDERWATER LIKE YOU SAID. SO LEARN HOW TO REDUCE THE CARBON FOOTPRINT!
"What natural disaster? Flood and drout is part of life in SE Asia since day1. And no, our forest standing is not at 30%, but 60%, and governor is responsible for the wellbeing of people in his province and he has the full power and rights to decide how to develop his territory."
RE: ARE YOU SURE TALKING THE FORESTRY IN CAMBODIA OR AMAZON RAINFOREST REMAINING? LET ME GIVE YOU A HEAD UP ABOUT THE FACTOID, THERE ARE NOT ANYMORE RAINFOREST'S COUNTRY HAVE 60% OF ITS VIRGIN FOREST UNTOUCH BY THE CORRUPTED GOVERNMENT!
IT'S EMBARRASING TO SPIT OUT SUCH A LACK OF KNOWLEDGE LIKE YOU DID. JAKARTA, INDONESIA, THAILAND, BURMA, MEXICO, AMAZON, AND MORE ARE THE BIGGER COUNTRIES WITH RAINFOREST. THEY DON'T EVEN HAVE 30% OF ITS VIRGIN FOREST LEFT!
MILLIONS OF INSECTS & ANIMAL KINGDOMS MAKE THE RAINFOREST A HOME. CAMBODIA: SMALL COUNTRY BUT THE RAINFOREST OUGHT TO BE PROTECTED. BELIEVE ME, THE WORLD DEPENDS ON IT.
Aren't you ashame of yourself at all when you star with "Bullshit" most of the time. You know what, you don't seem to have enough self-respect for yourself when you implie that someone does not have as much knowledge as you do. Here what the Bhhda said:"A fool who knows his foolishness is wise at least so far. But a fool who thinks himself wise, he is called a fool indeed."
How much did you know the teaching of buddhism? I would be enlightened to learned? Here is for you 10:15PM to learned for quoting the falsifying info. Factoid on Rainforest. Proof yourself that you learned this info, bro.
"The Disappearing Rainforests. We are losing Earth's greatest biological treasures just as we are beginning to appreciate their true value. Rainforests once covered 14% of the earth's land surface; now they cover a mere 6% and experts estimate that the last remaining rainforests could be consumed in less than 40 years.
One and one-half acres of rainforest are lost every second with tragic consequences for both developing and industrial countries.
Rainforests are being destroyed because the value of rainforest land is perceived as only the value of its timber by short-sighted governments, multi-national logging companies, and land owners.
Nearly half of the world's species of plants, animals and microorganisms will be destroyed or severely threatened over the next quarter century due to rainforest deforestation.
Experts estimates that we are losing 137 plant, animal and insect species every single day due to rainforest deforestation. That equates to 50,000 species a year. As the rainforest species disappear, so do many possible cures for life-threatening diseases. Currently, 121 prescription drugs sold worldwide come from plant-derived sources. While 25% of Western pharmaceuticals are derived from rainforest ingredients, less that 1% of these tropical trees and plants have been tested by scientists.
Most rainforests are cleared by chainsaws, bulldozers and fires for its timber value and then are followed by farming and ranching operations, even by world giants like Mitsubishi Corporation, Georgia Pacific, Texaco and Unocal.
There were an estimated ten million Indians living in the Amazonian Rainforest five centuries ago. Today there are less than 200,000.
In Brazil alone, European colonists have destroyed more than 90 indigenous tribes since the 1900's. With them have gone centuries of accumulated knowledge of the medicinal value of rainforest species. As their homelands continue to be destroyed by deforestation, rainforest peoples are also disappearing.
Most medicine men and shamans remaining in the Rainforests today are 70 years old or more. Each time a rainforest medicine man dies, it is as if a library has burned down.
When a medicine man dies without passing his arts on to the next generation, the tribe and the world loses thousands of years of irreplaceable knowledge about medicinal plants."
A LACK OF KNOWLEDGE IS A DANGEROUS THING.
That much, as I just wrote; satisfy? You seem very knowldegeable, omniscient? No, may be not. Anyway, I admire you for knowing a lot about what you just wrote, but can you learn to soften your cocky gesture a little bit when you spit out your words to put in your comment. And I want to ask you a question relating to the last line of your comment. What do you think about Khiev Samphan, Hou Yun, Hou Nim, N. Ranaridh, all of whom have PhDs? Do they lack knowledge? Oh, here just one more about what the Buddha said: "If a traveller does not meet with one who is his better, or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey; there is companionship with a fool."
...I mean "there is no com..."
Folks, Khmer people don't lied.
Here's a satellite map. Don't live in the evil propaganda.
http://maps.google.com/
You can drag Cambodia to the center
and zoom in to count the area cover by forest. You can compare Cambodia to developed country like Thailand, ... Learn to work independently. You don't need Phd for this, alright.
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