Police Block Families of Mother Nature Activists During March
The Cambodia Daily (01 April 2016)

​Cambodia digs into sand mining industry as beaches and crabs vanish
Yahoo News / Thomson Reuters

(03 - November - 2016)

The Fight over Grains of Sand

Die Welt (28 - August - 2016)

​Ministry Claims ‘No Irregularity’ in Huge Sand Export Gap

The Cambodia Daily (16 - December - 2016)​

• Minister faces music on sand
  

Phnom Penh Post (16 - December - 2016)

• ​Cambodia Singapore sand trade figures prompt $750m question as
  

corruption suspicions mount (opens as pdf file)

Mlex Market Insight (16 Dec 2016)

• ​Cambodia presses for answers on Singapore sand trade discrepancy
  

(opens as pdf file) Mlex Market Insight (14 December 2016)

• ​Minister to be grilled on sand export discrepancy
  

Phnom Penh Post (14 - December - 2016)

• ​​Ongeremde Zandwinning bedreigt Cambodjaanse natuur (opens as pdf file)
  

Trouw (12 December 2016)

• ​Singapore Silent Amid Sand Smuggling Claims
  

The Cambodia Daily (07 - December - 2016)​

• Assembly Wants Answers From Mines Minister / អានជាភាសាខ្មែរ
  

​The Cambodia Daily (07 - December - 2016)​

• ​Mixed feelings toward dredging-fuelled fund
  

​Phnom Penh Post (07 - December - 2016)

• Ministry to be grilled on sand exports
  

​Phnom Penh Post (02 - December - 2016)

• ​Ministry Asks NGOs to Help Monitor Sand Trade
  

​The Cambodia Daily (26 - November - 2016)​

• Sand Extraction in Koh Kong Province Halted, Ministry Says 
  

​The Cambodia Daily (17 - November - 2016)​  /  អានជាភាសាខ្មែរ - Download in PDF

• ​NGOs Ask Government to Suspend Sand Dredging
  

The Cambodia Daily (12 - November - 2016)  /  អានជាភាសាខ្មែរ

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• ​Dredging by the numbers
  

Phnom Penh Post (07 - November - 2016)

• Ministry: If There is No Sand There will be No Construction Sector
  

Khmer Times (07 - November - 2016)

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• ​Cambodia digs into sand mining industry as beaches and crabs vanish
  

Yahoo News / Thomson Reuters (03 - November - 2016)

• Illegal Sand Dredging Eradicated, Mines Ministry Claims
  

​The Cambodia Daily (03 - November - 2016)  /  អានជាភាសាខ្មែរ

• Dredging for answers
  

Phnom Penh Post (03 - November - 2016)

• Sand export answers sought
  

Phnom Penh Post (02 - November - 2016)

• ​Ministry Blames ‘Ineffective Practices’ for Over $400M in Missing Sand
  

The Cambodia Daily (02 - November - 2016)  /  អានជាភាសាខ្មែរ

• Cambodia's villagers lose ground – literally – to Singapore's expansion
  

Christian Science Monitor (21 - October - 2016) 

• ​Singapore’s data mirrors UN’s on Cambodia’s sand export numbers
  

Phnom Penh Post (19 - October - 2016)

• ​​​​​​​Gov’t slams UN sand figures

Phnom Penh Post (28 - September - 2016)

• Sand Export Figures Disputed
  

Khmer Times (28 - September - 2016)

• ​Dredging figures do not add up
  

​Phnom Penh post (27 - September - 2016)

• The Fight over Grains of Sand
  

​Die Welt (28 - August - 2016)

• Three Cambodian activists convicted and heavily fined — but free
  

Mongabay (06- July -2016)

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• ​​Koh Kong dredging activists found guilty for 'threats' 

Phnom Penh Post (01- July -2016)

• ​​Video Evidence Presented on Day 2 of Mother Nature Trial
  

The Cambodia Daily (29- June -2016)

• Mother Nature hearing concludes in Koh Kong
  

Phnom Penh Post (29- June -2016)

• Koh Kong sand-dredging opponents on trial over alleged threats
  

Phnom Penh Post (28- June -2016)

• ​Mother Nature Trial Begins in Koh Kong
  

The Cambodia Daily (28- June -2016)

• Sand dredging licences secretly soaring
  

Phnom Penh Post (25- May -2016)

• ​​UN Asked to Help Imprisoned Rights Activists 
  

The Cambodia Daily (16 April 2016)

• Ministry Cancels Visa for Deported Spanish Activist
  

The Cambodia Daily (11 April 2016)

• Gonzalez-Davidson's e-visa no good, Foreign Ministry says
  

Phnom Penh Post (11 April 2016)

• Deported Spanish Activist Gets Tourist Visa; Return Uncertain
  

The Cambodia Daily (08 April 2016)

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• Truckloads of police sent to stop Mother Nature petition
  

Phnom Penh Post (01 April 2016)

• Court Drops Charges Against Two Mother Nature Monks 
  

The Cambodia Daily (30 March 2016)

• Charges dropped against Mother Nature monk duo
  

Phnom Penh Post (29 March 2016)

• ​Areng activist guilty of ‘forest crimes’, released on suspended sentence;
  

Phnom Penh Post (04 March 2016)

• Environmental Campaigner Convicted of Forestry Crime;
  

The Cambodia Daily (04 March 2016)

• Hun Manet Inaugurates Areng Valley Schools;
  

The Cambodia Daily (02 March 2016)

• Activist Appeals to Hun Sen For Visa to Attend His Trial;
  

The Cambodia Daily (25 February 2016)

• Trial of Areng activist starts in Koh Kong;
  

Phnom Penh Post (18 February 2016)

• Koh Kong sand dredging impact studies due;
  

​​Phnom Penh Post (17 February 2016)

• Gonzalez-Davidson charges confirmed;
  

Phnom Penh Post (06 February 2016)

• ​​It’s time for me to return - Op-ed by Gonzalez Davidson;
  

Phnom Penh Post (05 February 2016)

• NGO Accuses Sand Dredging Company of Illegal Detention;
  

The Cambodia Daily (12 January 2016)

• Two more months of questions for activists;
  

Phnom Penh Post (08 January 2016)​​​

Mother Nature Activists Found Guilty, Freed 
The Cambodia Daily (02- July -2016)

Ministry Blames ‘Ineffective Practices’ for Over $400M in Missing Sand
The Cambodia Daily
(02 - November - 2016)

Mother Nature Cambodia in the News (2016)

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Sand wars: Singapore's growth comes at the environmental expense of its neighbours
Sidney Morning Herald (26 February 2016)

Below is a compilation of media articles since for 2016 that talk about Mother Nature Cambodia's work, in 2016. ​For other years, click on any of the years below: 
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The World’s Disappearing Sand

The New York Times (23 - June - 2016)

Minister faces music on sand 
Phnom Penh Post (16 December 2016)

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Koh Kong fishermen struggle in the shadow of sand dredgers

Phnom Penh Post (27- June -2016)

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Singapore’s data mirrors UN’s on Cambodia’s sand export numbers
Phnom Penh Post (28 - September - 2016)