More than 200 residents of Chroy Svay community’s Saray Khang Cheung
village in Koh Kong province’s Sre Ambel district urged authorities and the
provincial Department of Environment to take action against people who have
encroached on the community’s flooded forest land.
Fifty-one families living in a sub-village within the Stung Sen Ramsar site
in Kampong Thom province’s Kampong Svay district are requesting that the
Ministry of Environment and relevant authorities designate the area as being
community protected.
More families affected locked in land disputes with the Ministry of Defense
in Kandal province’s Ang Snuol district have been forced to accept what they
maintain is inadequate compensation for their land, saying that authorities
have threatened that they will get nothing if they keep refusing.
