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Forestry Administration
 Forestry Administration
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries,
# 40, Norodom Blvd, Phnom Penh 12205, Cambodia.
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Major Responsibilities
The Forestry Administration and Wildlife shall bear the following obligations:
- Prepare forest and wildlife inventory and assess potentiality classified by kinds and follow up forest and wildlife evolution;
- Enact law, regulations and orders for protection and management of forestry resource exploitation and wildlife conservation, hunting and monitor the implementation;
- Take part in establishment of measures to ensure environmental protection and prepare planning for forestry zoning management, forest areas for wildlife, natural protection zones, reforestation areas and set up forestry and wildlife development policy;
- Conduct the scientific research and study on forestry and wildlife and establish documentation;
- Inspect and manage the exploitation activities on forestry, main and by products, and wildlife hunting;
- Support and encourage any person who initiated on forest and wildlife protection and pay much consideration on Forestry Communities;
- Manage and develop zoos; and
- Undertake other duties which to be given by the leaders of the Ministry.
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Introduction
Forestry Sector is defined as a great potential for forest products. The extraction of forest products should be consistent with the annual forest increment and annual coupe-harvesting plan. Therefore, the natural forest resources are required to protect, develop and manage in sustainable way for our present and future generations.
In term of socio-economic, the forest has its own functions as follows: to provide forest products for local and international markets, to regulate water sources, protect forest land and support to national environment. According to above mentioned, we necessary to rehabilitate, improve and develop our forests resources.
Major Activities
There are 5 major activities in forestry sector include: Review and evaluation on Forest Concession Management Plans, forest and wildlife conservation, law and regulations development and forest crime monitoring and reporting project.
 Review and Evaluation on Forest Concession Management Plans
The Review and evaluation on Forest Concession Management Plans shall be completely based on two main activities:
- Set up criteria and indicators based on forestry Law, Code of practice, guideline for sustainable Forest management and sustainable Forest concession management planning manual.
- Verification and field inventory data collection (checking) for the evaluation.
The first activity has been prepared and carefully discussed for several times so as to comply with the forest concession management-planning manual. The second activity has been done through thorough and careful work by focusing on time limitation for monitoring, selection and identification of primary simple plots (PSU), which included demonstrated plots and clear identification of methodology to verify and collect (check) field inventory data.
 Forest Resources and Wildlife Conservation
The 3 protected forests proposed by MAFF/DFW are adopted under the Sub-Decree of:
- Protection Forest for conservation of Wildlife and Gene Resource in MUNDUL KIRI Province, 429,438 ha.
- Protection Forest for Conservation of Wildlife and Gene Resource in PREAH VIHEAR Province, 190,027 ha.
- Protection Forest for Conservation of Watershed and Bio-Diversity of the Central Cardamom Range, 401,313 ha.
- With support from WCS, a study on Biodiversity Conservation has been initiated on 306, 000 ha with SL international Concession, Mondulkiri and Kratie Provinces.
- Actions and field survey on Biodiversity:
- DFW-Community–based Tiger Conservation Project is an ongoing process in the Northern, Northeast and Southwest regions of Cambodia
- DFW-FFI Cambodia Asian Elephant Conservation Project at the planning stage, preparing for the fourth quarter of 2002 as follows:
- DFW-FFI Cambodia Asian Elephant Trans-boundary Conservation Project, this project will implement along the border Cambodia-Vietnam (Mundulkiri-Ratanakiri Provinces) using Radio Collar and Satellite Tracking and GIS system.
- DFW-FFI Elephant Managed Elephant Range Project, targeting elephant conservation effort of multiple stakeholders in Southwest Cambodia and including Human and Elephant Conflict mitigation.
- DFW-FFI Gibbon Conservation Survey Project has completely finished its first phase of study in some of the main forest estate areas of Cambodia. It is now identifying key areas for potentials site-based primate conservation.
- DFW-FFI Siamese Crocodile Conservation Project has finished its first stage of study on conservation status of Siamese Crocodile in Southwestern Cambodia. Action plan for Conservation of Siamese Crocodile in Cardamom Mountains Range is being prepared and is ready for implementation at the end of this year. The result of the study shows that the Cardamom Mountains Range is the only place in the world where here remains a viable Siamese Crocodile Population living in the wild.
- DFW-ICF Sarus Crane Conservation Project. Extension has been actively undertaken in the region of Ang Trapeng Thmar Reservoir for the benefit of the local community while cranes have been conserved and Ang Trapeng Thmar Reservoir has been protected.
- DFW-ITTO Transboundary Biodiversity Conservation Project. A Sub-Decree has been signed to set aside the Northeast forest region as Wildlife and Gene Resource Conservation Project ( Mondul Kiri ). An action plan for the implementation of Cambodian-Vietnam border for Bio-diversity Conservation in 2002 has been prepared.
- DFW-WCS Biodiversity Conservation Project has been started since January 2002. The following activities will be undertaken:
- Biodiversity Conservation Project in Mondulkiri and Kratie Provinces.
- action plan is being prepared Biodiversity Conservation Project in the northern region of Cambodia.
 Stand Rehabilitation and Improvement
The programs of stand rehabilitation and improvement were conducted in aspect as follows:
- Planting Trees on Degraded Forest areas (2002): It has been implemented on forest areas degraded in plantations of Department of Forestry and Wildlife and of Provinces and Cities totally 988 Ha.
- Planting Trees by People: It has been carried out yearly in Arbor Day, Religion Day, by students, private and government organizations and people. The trees species have been planted are indigenous species (Hopea odorata, Dipterocarpus alatus, Afzelia cochinchinensis, Dalbergia bariensis, Dalbergia cochinchinensis, etc.); fruit trees and Acacia sp. that were seedlings in Department of Forestry and Wildlife and Provincial-Municipal plantations and nurseries of Samdach Hun Sen totally about 2 Millions trees (2002).
- Community Forestry Programs: It was started in 1992 and continued until now in 15 provinces, 41 districts covering in 70 communes and 225 villages that 124 communities were established and they have been supported the fund and technique from 22 national and international organizations.
Law and Regulations Concerning Forestry Sector
- MAFF and DFW had been formulated a new law on forestry comprise of 18 chapters and 109 articles. This new law was officially enacted by assembly and senate of RGC on 30 July 2002 and 15 August 2002, respectively.
- A draft of law on wildlife was prepared by MAFF and DFW and launched its for public consultation at Nation level for one time on 18 May 2001. To date, this draft is under going the process of review after receiving the recommendation from various institutions involves.
- DFW in charge of the Secretariat of National committee to manage and execute the forest management policy has cooperated with GTZ to formulate a statement of RGC on National Forest Policy with the main objectives to effectively manage the forestry sector in Cambodia. This statement N
o 57 has been approved by the RGC on 26 July 2002.
- To formulate a draft of Communities Forestry Sub-decree in the result of the process of joint effort of Government institutions, local communities and NGOs.
- To formulate Sub-decrees on forest protection for conservation of wildlife and gene resources in Mondulkiri and Preah Vihear provinces covering the areas of 619,465 ha. These Sub-decrees N
o 75 and 76 has been approved by the RGC on 30 July 2002.
- To formulate a Sub-decree on Protection Forest for conservation of Watershed and Biodiversity of the central Cardamom range, covering the areas of 410,313 ha.
- MAFF has been issued a declaration (Prakas) No 5721, dated 13 December 2001, on suspension of forest concession logging activities this declaration, presently, are being strengthen implementation of this measures.
- MAFF has been issued a declaration (Prakas) No 527, dated 25 December 2001, regulating the maximum weight of the loaded forest products in order to reduce destruction and cost of maintaining infrastructure such as road and bridges. Violator of this decree must repair damages to roads and bridges and could be subject to legal proceedings, including close down of their factories or even termination of their concession contracts.
 Forest Crime Monitoring and Reporting Project
To reflect RGC’s commitment and show the activities and efforts of RGC in taking actions to eliminate anarchic forest activities and to provide a better understanding for national and international agencies, in May 1999, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) collaborated with the Ministry of Environment (MoE) to prepare the forest crime monitoring and reporting project. This project was revised according to international standards with technical assistance from FAO/UNDP.
In August 1999, the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, the Minister of Environment, FAO and the UNDP Representative to Cambodia signed the respective document establishing the “Forest Crime Monitoring and Reporting Project (FCMRP). The Department for International Development of the UK (DFID) and AusAID of Australia provided significant financial support to the project.
The project commenced in November 1999, with the following functions of the different stakeholders: Department of Forestry and Wildlife of MAFF and Department of Inspection of the Ministry of Environment as the Implementing Agencies in the field, FAO to be Executing Agency, with UNDP managing the Trust Fund. Global Witness was engaged as the independent monitor. In the meantime, RGC established also a Focal Point located in the Council of Ministers to coordinate/follow-up on the related work and report concerning the management and monitoring of forests of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and the Ministry of Environment and reports of the International Independent Monitoring Group.
On 05 June 2001, a Reporting Protocol of Forest Crime Monitoring and Reporting Project was produced and it was signed by all parties of Royal Government of Cambodia (Focal Point of Council of Ministers, MAFF and MoE), the representatives of FAO and UNDP in Cambodia, the Royal Danish Ambassador in Bangkok, Thailand, and the Global Witness representative in Cambodia. Meanwhile, the project document was revised and the representative of RGC, FAO and UNDP in Cambodia signed the project amendment on 12 September 2001.
To strengthen the efficiency of project operation, MAFF (DFW) has implemented the following measures:
- In June 2001, DFW restructured the Forest Crime Monitoring Unit due to the need to maintain sustainability of the project since it operated without the role of a CTA and funding for several months. This restructure was had no objection by FAO and UNDP yet (UNDP’ s letter dated on 21 January 2002 and FAO’ s letter dated on 07 February 2002).
- Established mechanism of a Working Group for holding the weekly meeting on Friday every week in DFW, participated by representatives from the DFW, as well as the Ministry of Environment, the Focal Point Coordinator, representatives from Global Witness, the CTA of the Forest Crime Monitoring and Reporting Project, and the Project Advisor from the World Bank LIL for discussing and changing information each other.
To strengthen the capacity of the project implementation and ensure the process of the project to become more and more unbroken and improved than before, two workshops of the project were organized as below:
- The First National Workshop On “ Strengthening Forest Crime Monitoring and Reporting” was held on 13 and 14 January 2000, at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. The opening ceremony of the National workshop was held under preside of H.E Sar Kheng, Deputy Prime Ministers, Co-Minister of the Ministry of Interior and the closing ceremony was held under higher preside of Samdech Prime Minister Hun Sen. There were 269 national and international participants to take part in this workshop.
- And the Second Annual Workshop On Second Annual Workshop On "Strengthening Forest Crime Monitoring and Reporting" was held on 27 and 28 March 2002, at the Sunway Hotel, Phnom Penh. The opening ceremony of the Annual Workshop was held under preside of H.E Sok An, Senior Minister, Minister in charge of Council of Ministers and the closing ceremony was held under preside of H.E Sum Manith, Secretary of State of the Office of Council of Ministers and Chairman of the Focal Point of the Royal Government. There were 160 national and international participants to take part in this workshop.
Totally, from 1990 to August 2002, the Forest Crime Monitoring and Reporting Unit of DFW collected forest crime information and classified them by case types and put them into the case tracking system to amount to 2,515 cases.
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