Our Videos 2025

The Write for Rights campaign of Amnesty International is currently taking place in Antwerp, Belgium.

 Sun Ratha, an activist from the Mother Nature Cambodia, is gathering voices to demand justice and freedom for our five friends. Now, join us in writing letters together! You can send the letters you’ve written to the Mother Nature Cambodia without any concern. 

#JusticeForAll #FreeMotherNatureCambodia #W4R25

The Write for Rights campaign of Amnesty International is currently taking place in Antwerp, Belgium.

 Sun Ratha, an activist from the Mother Nature Cambodia, is gathering voices to demand justice and freedom for our five friends. Now, join us in writing letters together! You can send the letters you’ve written to the Mother Nature Cambodia without any concern. 

#JusticeForAll #FreeMotherNatureCambodia #W4R25

The voices of supporters are calling for the release of the five environmental activists. These voices show that we are not struggling alone. We are walking this journey together with many others. 

#FreeOurFriends #FreeOurFriends #NotForgotten

Although the regime ignores their value, Khmer citizens at home and abroad prove that protecting the environment is not a crime. Please support the five activists now! 

#Freeourfriends #Notforgotten

Koh Kong Island, Cambodia’s largest island, has still not been declared a marine national park under the vision of “Koh Kong Island for all.”  On June 3, 2020, the Ministry of Environment promised to announce Koh Kong Island as a marine national park in 2021.

 Now, in 2025, the Ministry has not only ignored multiple petitions submitted by Mother Nature Cambodia but has also failed to make its stance clear on the process.  

We are deeply concerned about the natural resources of Koh Kong Island that remain at risk due to the silence of the authorities, while tycoon Ly Yong Phat has held development rights on the island since 2019. When citizens and natural resources are repeatedly neglected and betrayed by state authorities, that is the greatest danger of all.  

In this video, we want to show how protecting this island as a marine national park can bring benefits to all Cambodian citizens, especially the local communities. We can achieve this if the Ministry manages it with the common good in mind and remains open to learning from the experiences of other countries. #SaveKohKongIsland

We present key data worth noting, including both long-term and short-term findings from 2020 to 2025. Weak law enforcement by Cambodian authorities, combined with systemic corruption, has been and continues to devastate Cambodia’s rich marine resources. 

If we do not speak up and demand justice for our seas now, our marine resources, already trapped by corruption and official incompetence, will be gone, leaving nothing for future generations. 

#savecambodianwaters

Prey Lang is the heart of life for more than 250,000 people. It provides food, medicine, clean water, and spiritual strength to the Indigenous Kuy communities. If we do not all take part in the discussion about the future of Prey Lang today, then the next generations will never have the chance to experience this last lowland forest of Cambodia.

Mother Nature Cambodia calls on the government to prioritize the sustainable protection of natural resources, and to respect the rights of Indigenous peoples and the public to participate in safeguarding this ancestral forest.

#SavePreyLang #សង្គ្រោះព្រៃឡង់

While we, the ordinary people, struggle each day just to survive, powerful private companies such as Vantage Mining (Cambodia) Co., Ltd. are actively quarrying marble inside the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary, Cambodia’s last lowland forest, raking in up to hundreds of millions of US dollars every year.
Despite its status as a “protected forest,” Prey Lang has been and continues to be carved up piece by piece for powerful private companies, most of which operate with a severe lack of transparency and accountability.
We call on the relevant ministries to urgently clarify and take responsibility for this case.

#SavePreyLang

We would like to express our sincere gratitude to Mongabay for producing this remarkable documentary video, which highlights the struggles and sacrifices of Cambodian youth in the fight to protect the environment. 

This video captures the courage and integrity of young Cambodians in their deep commitment to life and natural resources. It reveals the dangers, obstacles, and hopes that these youth face as they strive to safeguard our country’s natural heritage. 🎥 It is a true reflection of the reality in Cambodia, where the voices of truth are often brutally silenced under authoritarian rule. 

We warmly invite all Cambodians, both inside and outside the country, as well as our international friends, to watch this video, understand the realities lived under threat, and help share it widely. Because this is not just our story—it is the story of the struggles, challenges, and hopes of Cambodian youth, in our role as citizens of this nation. 

📍 Watch the full video here: https://youtu.be/t60OyDyU7vU #FreeOurFriends#NotForgottenដោះលែងមិត្តរបស់យើង

9 Years Since the Assassination of Dr. Kem Ley

Nine years have passed, yet the light of justice remains absent, leaving behind deep, painful memories in the hearts of the Cambodian people who lost Dr. Kem Ley, a true thinker and voice of conscience. His life was taken on July 10, 2016, at the Caltex Bokor gas station in Chamkarmon District, Phnom Penh, by a killer whose ignorance and cruelty robbed us of a national figure of reason.

Despite this, authorities have shown little effort to uncover the truth and deliver genuine justice to Dr. Kem Ley and his family. Nevertheless, as youth, activists, and citizens both inside and outside Cambodia, we continue to raise our voices in search of justice in a society that constantly boasts of peace in every direction. But what kind of peace is this, when it takes nine years just to seek justice for one humble man?

And this is only the case of Dr. Kem Ley. What about the countless other ordinary citizens who have suffered injustice for decades, across generations? How many more years must people cry out for justice in a so-called peaceful society?

#ឈាមនៃការពិត#កែមឡី#Kemley#ដោះលែងមិត្តរបស់យើង#Freeourfriends

The government of Hun Manet must take the following actions: 1. Immediately revoke the license of KP Cement Industry. 2. Activate the Anti-Corruption Unit, which has been dormant, and compel it to fullfill its duties by investigating the case that has led to the destruction of tens of thousands of hectares of forest in Prey Lang. 3. Demonstrate an effective forest protection policy through the Ministry of Environment, one that goes beyond the current symbolic or ineffective measures and addresses deforestation with urgency.

 #SavePreyLang #SayNoTo99HectarELC #សង្គ្រោះព្រៃឡង់ #លុបចោលដីសម្បទាន៩៩ហិកតា

Hundreds of Vietnamese fishing vessels have for years been entering Cambodian territorial waters. Meanwhile, the authorities are ignoring this crisis.  Share this video and join us in our demands for an urgent explanation from Hun Manet's government on this issue. 

 #សង្រ្គោះដែនទឹកកម្ពុជា #SaveCambodianWaters

🌱🌱 They dreamed of protecting Cambodia’s remaining natural resources, making them safer, and preserving the beauty of this golden land for future generations. But in pursuit of that dream, they have faced repeated imprisonment and injustice. This is not the end, brothers and sisters. Their fight is not over. It is now up to us to carry it forward. #FreeOurFriends #notforgotten

This is a garbage incinerator located in Kirirom National Park. Not just one, not two, but many! Has the Ministry of Environment run out of options, resorting to using protected areas like this as garbage dumps?

What game is the Ministry of Mines and Energy playing with us? Sand is a vital resource among many natural resources that supports ecosystems, protects coastlines, and provides numerous other benefits. History has clearly shown that the government lacks the capacity to protect this resource, focusing instead on relentless extraction and exportation, which drains national wealth for the sake of money and power. We will absolutely not agree if there is another export of sand to foreign countries. #handsoffourcambodiansand

‌Democracy is a country where laws are born from the will of the people, not from the mouths of those in power.

Why should we engage in helping our community? Please listen to the explanation provided by the youth, Ly Chandaravuth, as follows. #Iamlychandaravuth 

Fantastic provincial administration! Once again, they choose to turn a blind eye and remain silent, as usual. This will not resolve the issues, nor will it address their responsibility for transforming a protected area into a landfill. Meanwhile, they have been treating the wildlife corridor as a dumping ground, continuously expanding this trash site over the past three years. What an egregiously intentional act! This mismanagement of waste is bound to harm both human and animal health and further devastate our already shrinking biodiversity. Therefore, we must ask: How exactly will the Koh Kong Provincial Administration be held accountable for the consequences of their ill-conceived decision to establish this dump?

#RemoveDumpFromProtectedAreas

#PeamKrasobWildlifeSanctuary

#KohKongProvincialAdministration