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26 May 2019
By Katie Reytar
This is the second installment of WRI’s blog series, New Perspectives on Restoration. The series aims to share WRI’s views on restoration, dispel myths, and explore restoration opportunities throughout the world.
The world has lost almost half of its original forest cover, due…
3 May 2019
By Chris Hufstader
After an audacious land grab by a foreign company, indigenous women in a remote Cambodian village struggle to regain their farms and sacred sites.
Sol Preng remembers vividly the day in 2012 when bulldozers unexpectedly arrived on her family farm.
“The company came and…
15 March 2019
Cambodia aims to fasten its economic growth while fully committing to sustainable development. To avoid adverse impacts from the development and promote long term benefits to economic, social and environmental change, the practice of Environmental Impact…
7 March 2019
Date: 6 mars 2019
Source: Farmlandgrab, Médor
Par Cédric Vallet
En 2008, Socfin et son allié local, KCD, débarquent à Busra, au Cambodge. Ils obtiennent de l’État cambodgien un bail sur des terres forestières pour y planter des hévéas, les arbres à caoutchouc. Ces terres étaient pourtant occupées…
7 March 2019
Date: 6 mars 2019
Source: Farmlandgrab, Médor
Par Cédric Vallet
En 2008, Socfin et son allié local, KCD, débarquent à Busra, au Cambodge. Ils obtiennent de l’État cambodgien un bail sur des terres forestières pour y planter des hévéas, les arbres à caoutchouc. Ces terres étaient pourtant occupées…
18 July 2018
As Singapore dredges sand out from beneath Cambodia’s mangrove forests, an ecosystem, a communal way of life, and one woman’s relationship to her beloved home are faced with the threat of erasure.
I remember my first trip to the mangrove forests near the island of Koh Sralau and along…
At last month’s International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC) in Malaysia, I co-hosted a panel on land grabbing and corruption with Transparency International. This global annual event gathers together governments, civil society, enforcement agencies, journalists and others to discuss ways of…
Land grabs and the International Criminal Court: will Cambodia’s kleptocrats finally face justice? ()
On 15th September the International Criminal Court broadened its process for selecting and prioritising cases to include land grabbing and environmental destruction. The decision presents an opportunity to curb the deforestation and rights abuses driven by illegally-issued agricultural concessions…
Conservationists and environmental advocacy groups have warned that the nature, pace and scale of Chinese-funded infrastructure projects in the developing world may lead to unintended environmental consequences, especially in so-called “ecological hotspots.” Until now, there has been no systematic…