the status of PREY LANG

8th Monitoring Report with data from forest patrols

• PLCN REPORTS OF ILLEGAL LOGGING HAVE INCREASED particularly around the Think Biotech sawmill

• MOST LOGGED TIMBER SPECIES ARE ENDANGERED according to the IUCN Red List; many are valuable for community subsistence

• While the latest government crackdown on illegal logging is welcome, PLCN URGES GREATER GOVERNMENT ACTION AGAINST COMPANIES OPERATING ILLEGALLY IN AND AROUND PREY LANG

On behalf of Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN): Argyriou D.1, Bori P.1, Theilade I.1

1 University of Copenhagen INTRODUCTION 2 8TH PLCN REPORT Image 1:PLCN memberstake arest duringpatrol. Prey Langalso regulates localweather national economy andfood security. fisheries oflocal households and to the Lake, both ofwhich are to crucial the the Mekong River and the Tonle Sap also amajor watershed that feeds are found in the area. Prey Lang is threatened andanimal species deciduous forests. Numerous rare and forests, evergreen, semi-evergreen and forest ecosystems, including swamp The forest supportsseven distinct Treng, Kampong Thom andPreah Vihear. and spans four provinces: Kratie, Stung approximately 500,000 hectares (ha) west ofthe Mekong River. Itcovers the central plains ofCambodia,just The Prey LangForest islocated in According to the University ofMaryland a ban onalltimberexports. The Cambodiangovernment hasissued in 2016,Sanctuary covering 431,683 ha. Prey Langwas designated a Wildlife tochange. Due itsnationalimportance, systems andhelpsmitigate climate in 30x30meter pixels. the completeness oftree cover canopy annual tree cover lossdataset measures per day. The University ofMaryland Olympic stadium (0.705 ha)cutdown football fields the size ofPhnom Penh ha offorest destroyed day every or18 This isequivalent to anaverage of13 was 4,563Sanctuary ha.in2018. (Fig.1). forest lossfor the Prey Lang Wildlife 2 , 1 1 member inhiscommune dueto his life. In2009, becameanactive Sung trinsic part ofKuyculture andspiritual Prey Lang as hebelieves itforms anin- mobilising communities to protect tecting the forest andispro-active in 2000. He hasdevoted hislife to pro- became anactive member ofPLCN in of Non-Timber Forest Products. Sung farming, mainlyrice, andharvesting and sixchildren. Hisfamily relies on Kratie province together with hiswife Vattanak commune,Samboudistrict, is Kuyandlives in Ta Ngeun village, Mr. SVAY in 1957.was Sung born He PATROLLERS Brown bars show annualforest loss.Red lineshows average forest lossover past three years. Figure 1:Forest lossinPrey Lang,2001 -2018 Forest loss . al-forest/download_v1.6.html 2 Change.” Science 342 (15 November): 342 Change.” Science 850–53. Data available on-linefrom: Kommareddy, A.Egorov, Chini,C.O. G. L. Justice,andJ.Townshend. R. 2013. “High-Resolution Global Forest Mapsof21st-Century Cover been awarded four international prizes, mostlately the Energy Globe Award 2019. approach to environmental justice continues to attract international attention andthe network has Copenhagen andthe results published inreports, press releases andonsocialmedia.PLCN’s innovative application known asthe Prey Langapp. The data are analysed incollaboration with the University of data onforest resources, illegalactivities andclimate change usingaspeciallydesignedsmartphone Prey Langincollaboration with other stakeholders. PLCN conductsregular forest patrols to collect access to natural resources. Today, PLCN is a well-organised group of communities working to protect lands from large-scale illegalloggingandlandgrabbing, which was destroying localcommunities’ In 2001, communitiesliving inandaround Prey Langbeganto advocate protecting their ancestral forest ha oralmost10% ofthe Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary. tree cover lossdata (shown inFig1).The Watch (GFW) therefore recommends usingathree-year moving average to assesstotals andtrends inthe late-in-the-year lossmay bepicked upinthe nextyear following persistent cloud cover. Global Forest because opticalsatellite data collection canoften beobscured by cloud cover inthe humidtropics, some temporary loss(inwhich forests willrecover), norbetween natural orhumancausesofloss.Inaddition, This measurement doesnotdifferentiate between landcover permanent change (deforestation) or

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3 8TH PLCN REPORT REPORT LAST MONITORING WHAT’S NEWSINCE 4 8TH PLCN REPORT pone.0213368 ation anddeforestation onlocaltemperature across the globe. PLOS ONE,14(3). doi:10.1371/journal. from Mongabay change, according to arecent article weather events with climate of the public connected extreme March andApril,more members Southeast Asia and during After the heatwave that baked of Climate change Deforestation, adriver 4 ter_2019_06_20&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_940652e1f4-381730ab6a-67238715 forestation/?n3wsletter&utm_source=Mongabay+Newsletter&utm_campaign=381730ab6a-Newslet 3 water from photosynthesis is ground level. Meanwhile, evaporating sunlight, creating more heatatthe forests in developing nations, reflect industrial areas that often replace including concrete-heavy urban or that hits them. Non-forested areas, Forests absorb much ofthe sunlight potential changes inwater cycles. sequestration, as well as through CO2 emissionsand reduced climate change through increased that have, however, repeatedly shown Environment spokesperson. Scientists by Neth Pheaktra, of aMinistry higher temperatures was rejected connecting deforestation to the NATIONAL AWARD FOR CAMBODIA PLCN WINSTHEENERGYGLOBAL the World Bankandthe European Renewable Energy Council. madeupofmembersfromjury the UN IndustrialDevelopment Organisation, prestigious environmental prizes worldwide, with winnersselected by a Energy Globe Award isknown as “Nature’s Nobel Prize” andoneofthe most environmental problems feasible solutions already exist”.international The projects to aglobal audienceandto demonstrate that for many established 20 years ago, anditsaimis“to present successfulsustainable environmental protection efforts inCambodia. TheEnergy Globe Award was PLCN received the National Energy Globe Award 2019 for their innovative

Prevedello, J. A., Winck, G. R., Weber, M. M., Nichols, E., & Sinervo, B. (2019). Impacts of forest https://news.mongabay.com/2019/06/as-cambodia-swelters-climate-change-suspicion-falls-on-de deforestation contributes to 3 . Public criticism deforestation rates inthe world. Cambodia stillhasoneofthe highest timber trade from the government, ban andcrackdowns onillegal the loggingmoratorium, logexport even more intense Despite warming. in Cambodia,were found to create while higherdeforestation rates, as the tropical andtemperate regions, leads to aconsistent of warming Moreover, global deforestation of changing forest cover isakey driver temperatures and found that between deforestation andincreased study and highertemperatures. Arecent thisIn turn, leadsto lessprecipitation makes itharder for clouds to form. means lesswater vapor, which vapor inthe atmosphere. Fewer trees responsible for 15 percent ofallwater local climate change worldwide. 4 explored the relationship - - - companies[...]”. from individuals to expand their crackdown upon the government to furthermore called “[...]activists have on illegallogging crackdown Government protected andthreatened tree species. who often operate andprocess illegallyandharvest their crackdown from individuals to companies, furthermore calleduponthe government to expand connections with government officials.Activists have andtimbertraders’crimes dueto corruption close is notaneffective solution to combatting forest created Committee for Forest CrimePrevention, setting upnewinstitutions,similarto the previously Civil society actors have, however, commented that tools usedby illegalforesters. measures andthe immediate ofseized destruction Prevention hasfurthermore announcednewstrict using weapons. TheCommittee for Forest Crime traders found guilty offorceful intimidation officials charged andChinese with corruption Recent months alsosaw arrests ofgovernment illegal timber, with aspecialfocus onrosewood. Exporting ofRosewood), tasked with intercepting of Logging, Transporting, Collecting, Storing and Secretariat for the Prevention andInterception secretariatup apermanent (the National Permanent ofAgriculture,the Ministry Forestry andFisheriesset illegal loggingandforest 2019, crimes.InJanuary Cambodian government’s attention towards months, there hasbeenageneral increase inthe international mediasuggestthat, inrecent A collection ofarticles across the nationaland

5 8TH PLCN REPORT VIOLATION CITES REGARDING EIA CALLSFOR ACTION 6 8TH PLCN REPORT uncontrolled deforestation a consequenceoflarge-scale and Cambodia’s wildlife sanctuariesas reported the rapid decline of A numberofarticles in2019 toring-and-land-use-governance-in-cambodia/ Cambodia, 2015 8 Forest trends: Conversion Timber, Forest Monitoring, andLand-Use Governance in JsNOWvQcJDRvJU9pg16vyhpEXxn2Z9PwE_V5Z4pv_1MuPtYvWCc 7 https://theaseanpost.com/article/cambodias-sanctuaries-under-threat?fbclid=IwAR3d0GBa- sanctuary-off-the-map/ 6 https://news.mongabay.com/2019/05/illegal-logging-poised-to-wipe-cambodian-wildlife- pdf 5 https://eia-international.org/wp-content/uploads/EIA-report-Vietnam-in-violation-spreads. fact that the government grants forests are lost annually due to the some 2,000 square kilometres of 2016 level, alone.Atthe country square kilometres oftree cover in lostmoreSanctuary than 100 years. Similarly, Prey Lang Wildlife percent ofitsforest in the last25 has lost nearly 60Sanctuary show how BengPer Wildlife its wildlife sanctuaries.Reports threatening the existence very of deforestation rates inthe world, hasoneofthe highest country https://www.forest-trends.org/publications/conversion-timber-forest-moni including Prey Lang. large-scale deforestation threatening Cambodia’s protected areas, forcrucial curbing the illegaltrade woods andthe in luxury The report highlighted that cross-country cooperation is Cambodia, enabling Cambodia to better tackle this illegal trade. and recommended that Vietnam declare all timber imports from The EIAhascalledfor arosewood trade moratorium with Vietnam International Trade inEndangered permits Species) harvested Cambodianrosewood usingfake CITES(Convention on Vietnam has repeatedly ignored the ban and imported illegally Investigation Agency (EIA)highlighted the fact that neighbouring trade. However, aSeptember 2018 report by the Environmental the Cambodiangovernment hasimposedaban onthe rosewood species, asrepeatedly reported by community patrols. Since2013, Lang Forest. Siamese Rosewood tree isaluxury speciesgrowing inthe Prey SANCTUARY CAMBODIA’S WILDLIFE RAPID DECLINEOF 6,7 . The Due toDue itshighvalue, illegalloggersare targeting the which are operating illegally companies year, every many of to large-scale agricultural vast areas oflandconcessions interventions. one andrequires multi-layered The issueistherefore acomplex the ELCs to launderthe wood. the ELC boundariesandusing are cuttingdown trees beyond noted how small-scaleloggers plantations. However, reports also drivers of forest conversion to woods beingtheand luxury with risingdemandfor rubber reason behinddeforestation, (ELCs) were noted asthe primary Economic LandConcessions 8 . - 5 .

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mitigation strategies putinplace by the communities around Prey Langforest. • security component ofthe app. towards patrol members,which canbedocumented with the newlyintroduced (mainly with the authorities) andnegative interactions such asthreats orviolence • methodology Prey Langarea such asresin trees, medicinalplants, fishinggrounds, andspirit forests. • such asillegallogging,conversion offorest, illegalhunting,andfishing. • The Prey Langappdocuments events infour majorcategories: Sapelli that facilitates data collection across languageorliteracy barriers. The Prey Langappwas builtbased onthe open-source smartphone app “Climate” refers to climate change observations or climate change refers“Reporting” to two majorsubcategories: Positive interactions “Resources” refers to natural orcultural resources andsites found inthe “Activities” refers to extraction in theactivities occurring Prey Lang area, 2 Research Centre(JRC) BY theEuropeanCommission’s Joint FOREST MONITORING NEAR REAL-TIMESATELLITE MAP OF PLCN RECORDS LINKEDTO 2.1 2.2 2.2 2.1 FCDM tool (Langneretal.,2018) usingsatellite from imagery 1andLandsat78. Sentinel Image 2.1 and 2.2: 2.2.) Note that each PLCN record may represent multiple entries(seeenlarged areas below inFigs2.1and spatial density ofdisturbance detections. Mapconstructed with qGIS3.6.2 Noosa software. regions inwhich forest canopy cover disturbances were detected. The darker the red, the higherthe 2019. disturbance events detected by the FCDM tool (Langner et al., 2018) for the period June 2018 to June Image 2:Mapshowing the entriesrecorded from PLCN (coloured paired dots) with forest canopy Symposium 2019 near real-time forest disturbance monitoring (Delta-rNBR approach) -acasestudy inCambodia, ESA Living Planet 11 Langner, A.; Theilade, I.;Nguyen, K.H.; Berger, D.; Argyriou, D.; Stibig,H.-J. Strengthening forest protection by domain usingmulti-temporal Sentinel-1 data, inpreparation 10 Case inContinental Southeast Asia.Remote 2018, Sens. 10, 544. lego, J.; Stibig,H.-J. Towards Operational Monitoring ofForest Canopy Disturbance inEvergreen Rain Forests: A Test 9 a newnearreal-time forest monitoring PLCN’s data are for the firsttimelinked to province. to the Mekong River onsoutheast Kratie around the Think Biotech sawmill close observed around the ELCs andespecially Heightened loggingactivity records canbe reduced water levels inrivers andlakes. to climate change observations such as illegal logging(87%), whilethe rest relates activities with GPS coordinates, mostly 2018 -June2019. PLCN documented 210 and surrounding areas for the periodJune records inPrey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary and climate change related PLCN The mapinImage2shows the logging

Prey LangWildlifeSanctuary Delta-rNBR approach Sawmill locations Economic LandConcessions Climate Change Cleared Area Transport Stump Planks The results of the FCDM tool Delta-rNBRapproach are represented asaheatmap, highlighting Langner, A.,etal.Monitoring large- andsmall-scalechanges invegetation cover andhumid inthe dry Langner, A.;Miettinen,J.; Kukkonen, M.; Vancutsem, C.;Simonetti,D.; Vieilledent, G.; Verhegghen,- A.;Gal Enlarged Overlap between PLCN entriesandforest canopy loss detected by (ELCs) Living Planet Symposium 2019 inMilan published atthe European SpaceAgency only onDelta-rNBR methodology) was ApreliminaryCentre result (JRC). (based European Commission’s JointResearch Image 2. multiple entriesintwo enlarged areas from The two mapsinImage2.1and 2.2 show too many detections. conservative, showing too few rather than map offorest canopy lossisconsidered as well asLandsat7and8. The resulting uses satellite from imagery 1 Sentinel rNBR as well as the Delta-SPE approach) The FCDM tool (able to the run Delta- rNBR methodology approach (FCDM tool combiningDelta- methodology 10 ) in collaboration with the 9 with Delta-SPE 11 .

9 8TH PLCN REPORT DISCUSSION AND FINDINGS

10 8TH PLCN REPORT 1 The IDoftheresults entries permonth Average illegallogging Validated Rate Validated Entries Total Entries analysis. between andSeptember 2017 January meantthat lessdata was uploaded andthe periodisnotincluded inthe year andfor the total periodinwhich the Prey LangApphasbeeninoperation. Technical problems with the app Table 1: Number of entries, validation rate and average number of entries on illegal logging per month for the past Prey Langapphasbeeninoperation. of entriesfor the total periodinwhich the entries). The graph shows the distribution and Other) madeup 4% ofthe entries(148 (Climate change, Reporting interactions entries). related to illegalactivities (1,080 resources (2,453 entries)while 29% all, 67% ofentriesreported valuable validated entriesfor the latest period.In Figure 2 shows the distributionofall approximately the same numberofdays. however, the patrols are bi-monthly for frequency and observation time; were by notnormalised their observation The records taken by the PLCN members month since the beginning of the project. to anaverage of83loggingcasesper from June2018 to June2019 compared average of89 illegalactivities permonth of illegallogging,patrols reported an leading to potential underreporting recent lack of funding for regular patrols members joiningthe patrolling. Despite a of training, testing sessions and new rate was highregardless ofthree periods included in the analysis. The validation assigned. time, date, andhadarelevant category photo documentation, coordinates, entries ofwhich 3,681 (72%) contained the Prey Langdatabase received 5,144 Between June2018 andJune2019, The rest of the categories Only validatedOnly entrieswere June‘18 -June‘19 3681 5144 72% 89 2 Figure 2: Entries distribution to June2019 2015 andFebruary to June2019. Distribution (%)oftotal Distribution entriesJune2018 Feb 2015-June2018 June 2018-2019 Feb ‘15-June‘19 83% 10731 23419 46% 4 3

ACTIVITIES may beaslarge as100 hectares. insizevary butprevious reports suggestthat they land-intensive activities (Img. 4). These clearings removed for timber, farming, miningorother designates larger areas where alltrees were collection andtransport. Cleared areas (12%) photo), which are usuallyleftby loggersfor later regularly cameacross planks (24%) (back cover outside Cambodia.Furthermore, monitors exported for useinhigh-endfurniture production Treng, 2019 January Wildlife inthe province Sanctuary ofStung Image 4:Acleared area within the Prey Lang in Stung Treng province, March 2019 pus alatusRoxb. &G.Don) found duringapatrol Image 3:AstumpofChhertheal (Dipterocar 2019 2018 to June2019 2015 aswell asFebruary to June Figure (%)ofloggingentriesJune 3:Distribution Cleared areas 12% Transport 16% Planks 24% Stumps 49% trees, such as Chhertheal stumps (49%), aproxy for ofluxury harvesting illegal logging,almosthalfofallentriesreported As describedinFigure 3,within the category documentation inprevious years. a minor proportion. This is consistent with illegal fishingandhuntingonlyconstituted of allentrieswhileELC mining,ELC plantation, category. Activities was the secondmostreported In the period between June 2018 and June 2019, Miq.) Roxb. & G.Don) & Roxb. Logging entries and Pdeak Illegal loggingaccounted for 97% (Img. 3), Korkoh (Anisoptera costata Korth.) costata (Anisoptera (Dipterocarpus alatus alatus (Dipterocarpus (Sindora siamensis siamensis (Sindora 3 - , often

11 8TH PLCN REPORT Transportation is a crucial part of data collection, as it highlights how road 5 construction and transportation of timber impacts the forest. For example, harvested logs were still predominantly transported using plough machines12 (82% of all entries, cover photo), while the use of motorbikes and trucks accounted for 14% (Fig. 4). Nevertheless, new and improved roads into the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary have June 2018 - June 2019 accelerated illegal logging, according to the locals (pers. comm). On the basis of 5 years of data collection Feb 2015 -June 2018 using the Prey Lang app, it is possible to observe trends in, and identify main threats to, the Prey Lang Forest. Comparing the dry seasons of the last two years, we can see an increase Boat 4% in reported illegal activities in 2019 of more than 23% compared to the Big Truck 7% preceding dry season. The dry season in Cambodia lasts from December until April. (Fig. 5). The rise in reported illegal activities Small Truck 7% 2% highlights the urgency of concerted 7% action against deforestation in 9% order to safeguard Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary from total destruction. Ox Cart 2% 12 Plough machine or goh-yun in Khmer is a tractor and the most used means of forest transport A truck transporting illegal felled illegal felled Image 5: A truck transporting January 2019 province, Treng in Stung trees 80% transportation 4 Transport entries Figure 4: Distribution (%) of illegal timber transport entries June 2018 to June 2019 as well as February 2015 to June 2019) Machine Cow 82% February 2019 February 2019

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Confiscated plough-machines plough-machines Image 6: Confiscated 5 Dry Season and illegally felled timber in Kratie province, province, timber in Kratie and illegally felled Figure 5: Comparison of recorded activities 600 500 400 300 200 100 during the dry season of 2018 and 2019 (Dry season: December-April) Reported Activities

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Trees resources 85% 6 as well as February 2015as well asFebruary to June2019) resources entriesinJune2018 to June2019) Figure 6: Resources entries Feb 2015-June2018 June 2018-2019 Distribution (%)ofvaluableDistribution 8 Chhertheal Image 8:AChherteal Resin tree (Dipterocarpus alatus Roxb. & G. & Roxb. alatus (Dipterocarpus A.W.Benn.) ex Oliv. malayana gia Image 7: A Chombork tree Don) Oliv. ex A.W.Benn. ex Oliv. malayana Irvingia Dipterocarpus alatus Roxb. & G.Don & Roxb. alatus Dipterocarpus 141 Doungchem Meanprey Lagerstroemia calyculata Kurz calyculata Lagerstroemia Anisoptera costata Korth. costata Anisoptera Sralaò 638 Chhertheal (Resin) Miq. siamensis Sindora 98 331 Chombork (Irvin Korkoh 233 Korkoh 331 141 Sralao’141 439 Pdeak . - Porpael 7 Chombork 101 tus Roxb. & G.Don) G.Don) & Roxb. tus Chhertheal most reported tree speciesis ported species of trees. Figure 7shows the mostre- 2015ruary to June 2019 period. similar to the results ofthe Feb- entries). These percentages are entries) andsacred sites (20 categories were animals(84 entries). The remaining two tries), followed by NTFPs (273 entries were trees (2,113 en- 2018 to June2019. Mostofthe resources for the period June Figure 6 shows the recorded

to PLCN, this specieswas also primarily for itsresin. According Pdeak 439 of records 2015. sinceFebruary Figure 7: Mostimportant tree speciesmeasured asnumber Most recordedtrees Calophyllum calaba var. bracteatum (Wight) P.F.Stevens P.F.Stevens (Wight) bracteatum var. calaba Calophyllum Symington Paong60 (Griff.) odorata Vatica Don G. 62 Chrormas roxburghii Shorea Dyer 64 Porpael intricatus Dipterocarpus Kosterm.) (Blume) Trach70 (Resin) javanica Heritiera Lour. Doungchem 98 longan Dimocarpus Mean/Meanprey101 (Dipterocarpus ala (Dipterocarpus 64 Korkoh (Img 8),used 70 The Trach - Chrormas costata Korth.), costata being threatened by logging. tion value butthese speciesare fore hastrees- ofhighconserva IUCN Red List.Prey Langthere- ported tree speciesare onthe Overall, four of the ten most re- na Oliv. ex A.W.Benn.) ex Oliv. na Chombork reported tree specieswas endangered. The third most cies was Pdeak and third mostlogged,spe- The secondmostreported, cording to the IUCN’s Red List. (Img. 3)andisendangered ac- the most frequently logged (Irvingia malaya (Irvingia Paong which isalso 62 (Anisoptera (Anisoptera (Img.7). 233 60 - 638

15 8TH PLCN REPORT 16 8TH PLCN REPORT 8 most reported NTFPspecies,Chnuo made into atray to clean rice.Thesecond or thatched roofs. Mostimportantly, Ktong is is alsoused to make baskets, mats, furniture used asatea to relieve diarrhoea, anditsvine ed plant species.Ktong isamedicinalplant (Lour.) Merr.) Merr.) (Lour.) the numberofrecords 2015. sinceFebruary Figure 8:Mostimportant NTFPspeciesaccording to Most recordedNTFPs Dransf.) J. (Kurz) paradoxa ialepis Khanma orKtong Products (NTFPs) are shown in The mostreported Non-Timber Forest ilar applications to Ktong. Thethird most Angraedaek 12 12 Mushrooms (Daemonorops jenkinsiana (Griff.) Mart.) (Griff.) jenkinsiana (Daemonorops ( (Medik.) Roxb.) (Medik.) angustifolia (Dracaena tectorius (Lour.) Merr. (Lour.) tectorius Ancistrocladus (Myrialepis paradoxa (Kurz) J. Dransf.) J. (Kurz) paradoxa (Myrialepis 29 Saom Paav Resin (Image 9)isthe mostreport 15 (Ancistrocladus tectorius tectorius (Ancistrocladus 29 Angraedaek29 (Medicinal) 37 25 Mushrooms (Edible) 37 Ktong37 (Medicinal) (Different species) 35 Chnou(Crafts) Ktong 15 Saom(Edible)15 Smarch , hassim- Chnou Figure 8. (Myr 5 25 - - ) AntongSor planks. are edible, andthe timberisusedto produce es milkproduction. Finally, the young leaves birth asitstimulates the appetite andincreas- considered anassistance to women giving with the leaves and flowers of Chnuo, it is culation. Moreover, ifthe infusionisprepared brewed into atea that enhancesblood cir dicinal properties. For example, the leaves are (Syzygium zeylanicum (L.) DC.) (L.) zeylanicum (Syzygium Pierre) 5 Smarch (Edible) oliveri (Garcinia Buch.-Ham.) ex 6 TrormoongRoxb. (Edible) triandra (Areca Wurmb) 6 Chnarb (Crafts) spinosa (Licuala 12 Paav (Edible) Jack) 12 Resin (Crafts) longifolia (Eurycoma Antong13 (Medicinal) Sor reported species,Angraedaek angustifolia (Medik.) Roxb.) (Medik.) angustifolia Trormoong Chnarb 13 6 , hasvarious me- 6 (Dracaena (Dracaena - 35 ntfp 10 9

Image 10: Ktong (Ancistrocladus Image 9: Epiphytic Orchid of the tectorius (Lour.) Merr.) genus Vanda.

17 8TH PLCN REPORT plcn from recommendations 18 8TH PLCN REPORT forest crimeprevention. action onforest restoration and relevant partners whohave taken ofEnvironment,Ministry andallother Suppression ofNatural Resources, the Commission for CrimePrevention and appreciation to the National would like to express oursincere Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary, Preah Vihear andKampong Thom, who voluntarily protect andmonitor the We, the Prey LangCommunity Network (PLCN) ofKratie, Steung Treng, We strongly hopeandbelieve that ral resource protection. ernment’s commitmentto natu- expressing the Cambodiangov tree-planting participation, thus and relevant partners, such as by are constantly beingimplemented vention andrestoration activities We have alsoseenthat forest pre- to protect the remaining forests. actions have beentaken inaneffort stroyed the loggingtools. These cated thousands oflogsandde- facilities andsawmills, confis- holders, closed down logstorage logging operations andstake- stopped andarrested powerful We recently saw how they have ing extremely hard onthese issues. relevant partners have beenwork- ofEnvironment,the Ministry and Suppression ofNatural Resources, mission for CrimePrevention and observed that the National Com- prevention efforts closely. We have ment’s forest restoration andcrime We have monitored the govern- the Ministry ofEnvironmentthe Ministry - forest community activist. velopment partner, and journalist, official,officer,success ofevery de- cerely wishfor the happinessand and restore Prey Langandwe sin- mentioned actionstaken to protect We greatly appreciate the afore- district, Kratie province. Beung Chacommune,Sambo Phom KampongDamrei village, and the sawmills located in down Biotech CambodiaCo. Ltd., es willtake swiftactionto close Suppression ofNatural Resourc- mission for CrimePrevention and and expectthat the National Com- continue without cease. We hope and crimesuppression actionswill these forest restoration activities 097 644 9998/098Sovanna 979 845 Ek097 644 For more information, Ly Chheang 0966680673 Nee Menh0963002762 Thei Srey 099722 187 please contact: IT’S OUR FOREST “PREY LANG: TOO.”

19 8TH PLCN REPORT Front Cover Image: Plough machines caught transporting illegal timber, in the province of Kratie, February 2019)

Back Cover Image: A PLCN patrol reports planks found in site, in the province of Kratie. (April 2019)

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The information contained in this document is the intellectual property of PLCN. You are welcome to use, print and redistribute this document provided the source is referenced. University of Copenhagen invited the Ministry of Environment to comment on the report and received the following response: “The Ministry of Environment is not in a position to provide comments to the draft report” PLCN wishes to thank the Joint Research Centre (JRC of the European Commission) that provided technical support to deliver forest canopy disturbances using the FCDM tool, interns of the Copenhagen University and all the people that offered their help voluntarily. This report wouldn’t be possible without them. The Prey Lang app was built based on Sapelli: an open-source project that facilitates data collection across language or literacy barriers through highly configurable icon-driven user interfaces. For more info:http://www.sapelli.org/" All photos are intellectual property of PLCN. All maps were made with QGIS.3.6.2 Noosa. The graphic design and all infographics were designed by Carolina Salassa ([email protected]) This document is protected under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC 4.0) licence. www.preylang.net Supported in part by a grant from the Alexander Soros Foundation. Copyright © PLCN 2019-2020 First edition September 2019