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Radang is a sacred mountain located within the Punong indigenous community land in Pou Lung village in Senmonorom district’s Romnea commune in Mondulkiri province. The villagers have always celebrated the mountain by making offerings to the spirits, an activity that has long prevailed. However, the Radang Mountain land, covering an area of 4.76 hectares, is now part of a four year-long land dispute after some villagers allegedly sold the mountain land to two outsiders, identified as Phin Sophareak and Seng Yien. Read the full story at: ‘Return Our Sacred…
[caption id="attachment_1624" align="alignnone" width="2048"] The leaching ponds at Late Cheng’s mining site in Sochet commune, Kampong Thom province, pose a contamination threat to the waterways inside Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.[/caption] KAMPONG THOM, Cambodia — “The company operates as they please. We’ve asked the authorities for help, but they won’t do anything for us,” said Bunnarith*, a lifelong resident of Snang An village in the densely forested province of Kampong Thom. “The people l…
[caption id="attachment_1616" align="alignright" width="960"] Navy Koeung and Kimheak Chhay at COP28. Kiripost/Via WCS[/caption] Navy Koeung has become the first Bunong to address global leaders and high-ranking decision makers when she highlighted the benefits of carbon finance in forest conservation at COP28. On Sunday, Navy, who lives in Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary, took to the stage at the UNFCCC's 28th Conf…
While Indigenous peoples comprise just 6% of the global population, they manage or have tenure rights over at least 38 million km2 in some 87 countries. In many places Indigenous peoples are effective custodians of biodiversity, lands, and seas while sustaining distinct cultural, social and economic values of their
Following a land dispute, the Kampong Thom Provincial Court has given two indigenous Kui a one-year sentence in prison for their alleged involvement in a land dispute with a rubber plantation development company. The charges against them include "violence against real estate owners." Heng Saphen, a representative of the Kui indigenous people, expressed her dissatisfaction with the court's decision, claiming that she was not involved in the alleged violence and that the company had even withdrawn their complaint. "I find it unjust for both myself and my daughter, as I believe I am not at fault, y…
