“I want to announce to the general public and the journalists that on November 2, the Ministry of Mines and Vitality requested [Prime Minister Hun Manet] to not increase mining operations nor search additional mining enterprise in Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary,” Keo Rattanak, Cambodia’s minister of mines and vitality, mentioned at a press convention on Nov. 21, 2023.
Based on Rattanak, Manet accepted the request the identical day it was made, “demonstrating [Manet’s] will to protect Prey Lang” by primarily freezing the issuance of recent mining licenses contained in the hotly contested sanctuary. The ban may even reassess current mining concessions in Prey Lang, returning land not used for mining functions to the state, Rattanak added. It is going to additionally forestall corporations presently mining the roughly 490,000-hectare (1.2-million-acre) protected forest from increasing their concessions.
In full: https://information.mongabay.com/2024/01/sanctioned-timber-baron-wins-new-mining-concessions-in-cambodias-prey-lang/
