Launches Month-Long 1000 Km Cycling Campaign for World Environment Day 2024 Celebration
Wednesday May 8th, 2024
Launches Month-Long 1000 Km Cycling Campaign for World Environment Day 2024 Celebration The Cambodian Youth Network Association, in collaboration with 13 civil society organizations, is proud to announce a month-long World Environment Day 2024 celebration, from May 6th to June 5th, 2024. The theme for this year’s event is “The well-being of the planet is our shared responsibility.” Throughout the celebration, various activities will be organized by civil society organizations,[…]
Celebrating the 13th Anniversary of International Forestry Day Under the theme “Sustainable Forests for Humanity.”
Monday April 1st, 2024
Celebrating the 13th Anniversary of International Forestry Day Under the theme “Sustainable Forests for Humanity.” ==================== Associations and youth groups jointly celebrate the 13th anniversary of International Forest Day under the theme “Sustainable Forests for Humanity” at Freedom Park with 200 participants. This event lasts ten days, from March 12 to 21, 2024, with three aims: Objectives of the program include: 1. Celebrate International Forest Day 2024 and promote the[…]
The Wildlife Trade around the Prey Lang Area in Cambodia
Thursday November 23rd, 2023
Press release on the dissemination of the investigation report: The Wildlife Trade around the Prey Lang Area in Cambodia Phnom Penh, Cambodia- 14th September 2023 The Cambodian Youth Network Association (CYN) is pleased to announce that on September 15th, 2023, it will be hosting a presentation of the investigation report’s findings on “The Wildlife Trade around Prey Lang Area in Cambodia” and a discussion on community concerns.[…]
Forestry Crimes Up 15 Percent, Official Insists Large-Scale Logging Eliminated
Wednesday August 11th, 2021
Patrolers found more than 4,200 cases of illegal logging and other forestry crimes in the first half of the year, an increase of 15 percent, as authorities continued to say that large-scale timber trafficking had been eliminated in the country.
Civil Society Campaigns for Release of Environmental Activists
Tuesday August 3rd, 2021
The Ministry of Justice has dismissed the campaign saying that the only way to help the jailed activists is through the courts PHNOM PENH–Environmental youth groups and civil society groups on June 28 launched a campaign demanding the release of jailed environmental activists and calling for the charges, which have been widely regarded as politically motivated, to be dropped.
Five years after his murder, family and advocates still seeking justice for slain political commentator Kem Ley
Monday August 2nd, 2021
As they prepare for Saturday’s five-year anniversary of the murder of prominent political commentator Kem Ley, a broad coaltiion family members, friends and civil society groups of all kinds are calling on the government to provide “genuine justice” in a case that has drawn international attention.
Joint Statement On Call for a Transparent Investigation and a Stop to Grassroots Activism Interference following Hong Kong’s Seizure of More Than 211 Tons of Rare Timber Exported from Cambodia
Friday June 4th, 2021
Phnom Penh, May 27, 2021 We, the undersigned associations, unions, civil society organizations, environmental activists, acitizens, and international scientists are very concerned after seeing the press release issued by
At Least 14 Activists Arrested in Cambodia since August
Thursday September 10th, 2020
An unprecedented string of arrests has taken place since early August 2020 and shows no sign of slowing down as the government targets youth and environmental activists. PHNOM PENH–Some 14 activists have been arrested by the Cambodian authorities over the course of the past month, with youth activists, environmentalists, politicians, a rapper and a monk being rounded up in the wake of outspoken unionist Rong Chhun’s arrest. Throughout August[…]
Report shows 100,000 hectares of forest lost in Prey Lang
Tuesday August 11th, 2020
The Prey Lang Protected Area has lost more than 100,000 hectares of forest between 2000 and 2019, more than half of which became plantations, according to a report released August 10 by the NGO Jesuit Service Cambodia’s Ecology Program and the Cambodian Youth Network. To determine forest loss and recovery over the nearly two decade period, the Technical Report on Forest-Cover Change Detection in the Prey Land Protected Area of[…]
Prey Lang Forest Has Been Reduced by Nearly a Quarter over the Last 20 Years
Tuesday August 11th, 2020
It remains the last major lowland rainforest in Southeast Asia PHNOM PENH-Prey Lang Forest has lost 102,436 hectares of forest, that is, around 24 percent of its total land area over the past two decades, according to a report released on Aug. 10. The report Ecology Program of Jesuit Service Cambodia, which was produced in partnership with the Cambodian Youth Network, found that 102,436 hectares of forest became barren[…]