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Journalist in Cambodia. Bylines @npr @TheWorld @BBCRadio4 @guardian. 2025 Ferriss-UC Berkeley Journalism Fellow. @pulitzercenter and @earthjournalism grantee.
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What Consultation Looks Like on a Cambodian Carbon Offset Project

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By Leila Goldstein Verified, Eung Sea
| Tribune Content Agency
“Lumphat villagers consent to REDD+ project,” reads a 2023 headline in the Phnom Penh Post, above a photo of 10 villagers raising their hands and holding up informational banners about the forestry carbon offset project in northeast Cambodia. “They gave their consent with no coercion,” the NGO NatureLife, the organization implementing the project, is quoted as saying in the article. But residents from the village tell a different story. “That’s the village chief, that’s his wife. That’s an uncle.
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What Consultation Looks Like on a Cambodian Carbon Offset Project

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By Leila Goldstein Verified, Eung Sea
| The Diplomat Magazine Verified
A REDD+ project in the country’s northeast aims to conserve forest and reduce carbon emissions, but many local residents say they know little about it and never gave their consent. By Leila Goldstein and Eung Sea Bunong Indigenous villagers from the community of Roya Leu, in Cambodia’s Ratanakkiri province, stand in front of a community sign. The villagers are seeking to gain legal ownership of its land through an Indigenous Communal Land Title.
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Cambodia’s concrete ‘reefs’ thwart trawling and create new homes for marine life

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By Leila Goldstein Verified
| The World from PRX Verified
Choeurn Hong, 46, was a longtime fisherman on Koh Sdach, King Island, just two miles long off the coast of Cambodia. But now, his bright orange wooden boat is packed with neon life jackets and snorkeling gear for visitors. Hong switched to working in tourism a few years ago, when he could no longer support his family through fishing. “I noticed the number of fish declining about seven years ago when there was a lot of illegal trawling at the time,” Hong said.
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