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May 9, 2012
April 30, 2012
Pok Hong is an Indigenous Kuy activist from Cambodia who has been a protagonist in the fight to save Prey Lang forest from illegal logging and rubber plantations. Read the following interview to get to know Hong and why the fate of Prey Lang forest matters.
April 26, 2012
Cultural Survival is deeply saddened and angered by the killing of Chut Wutty at the hands of Cambodia military police.
April 9, 2012
More than 300 activists took to patrolling the Prey Lang forest again for four days, March 23-26, to combat illegal logging.
March 26, 2012
We have just learned that the Cambodian Government has granted four more landconcessions in the core area of the Prey Lang forest. If these go ahead, it could mean“game over” for the forest, say Kuy community members who are struggling hard to protect the forest.
March 13, 2012
Ouch Sam On, a deputy governor of Cambodia's Kampong Thom province, told Prey Lang activists last week that he "would not be responsible if they were shot while protecting Prey Lang Forest," according to our campaign partners at the Prey Lang Network.
February 23, 2012
On February 17, the prime minister of Cambodia signed a sub-decree that protects 480,000 hectares of the Prey Lang forest as a conservation area. Local activists from the Prey Lang Network are celebrating the decision, but remain skeptical of the plans.
February 20, 2012
Human rights organizations and government institutions of Southeast Asia formed a joint statement after a four-day workshop in Bali, Indonesia, this past November. The workshop was convened by the Indonesian National Human Rights Commission and organized by Forest Peoples Programme and Indonesi
December 30, 2011
The Prey Lang Network is our grassroots partner in the campaign to save Prey Lang forest. They are an association of Indigenous and non Indigenous activists who have joined together to protect their forest.
December 30, 2011
Two community activists who have been outspoken against the illegal logging and land concessions within the Prey Lang forest in Cambodia are being targeted by local police. Roeun Sopheap and Sim Sean have reported patrols of police waiting outside their homes and have been living in hiding thro
December 30, 2011
This short documentary about threats to the Prey Lang forest and the Kuy community’s efforts to protect it was produced by Cambodian student Kim Samath as part of the Southeast Asian Student Documentary Award Competition. To make her film, "Prey Lang - Fire of Light, Light of Hope," she traveled
December 16, 2011
Over 250 activists were confronted by police during a Buddhist prayer ceremony for the protection of Prey Lang forest in Cambodia. Held at the Angkor Wat complex on
December 14, 2011
Forest activists in the Prey Lang Network are gathering today in Cambodia’s famed Angkor complex to pray for Cambodia and its future. Cambodia has lost its forests at an alarming rate. Now Prey Lang, the last large lowland evergreen forest, is at risk.
November 22, 2011
This Al Jazeera news clip shows protesters at the end of their one-week march through the Prey Lang forest. Police broke up their protest against the illegal logging and rubber plantations that are destroying the forest and their livelihoods.
November 17, 2011
After marching for almost a week from areas surrounding the Prey Lang forest, some 400 Cambodian villagers were confronted by police who prevented the
November 10, 2011
Aljazeera reports today that 500 armed police have been sent to confront villagers who are trying to prevent the destruction of one of Cambodia's last primary forests, Prey Lang.
November 8, 2011
In this 10-minute video, Kuy villagers in Cambodia show their determination to protect Prey Lang (“Our Forest”) as bulldozers tear it down for agro-industry expansion and mining projects.
