Cambodia
Nearly two dozen Campus Consortium student fellows undertake reporting around the globe in 2013.
"Western" diseases such as heart attacks, diabetes, and hypertension hit poor countries, too, but you don't hear much about them. One challenge: making the story interesting.
Like many poor countries, Cambodia is being hit by hypertension and diabetes epidemics. Most charities focus on infectious diseases. Can anything stop these chronic conditions from killing millions?
The good news is that people in Cambodia are living longer. The bad news is they're getting chronic diseases such as diabetes and high blood pressure. Finding treatment is extremely difficult.
Guilford Student Fellow Keyla Beebe reflects on the killing of Wutty Chut, an environmental activist who opposed deforestation in Cambodia.
Ten Pulitzer Center student fellows will report from abroad on topics such as environmental policy in Thailand, health and nutrition in the United Arab Emirates and gender equality in South Africa.
In Cambodia local human rights and environmental groups protest both illegal and legal logging that is fueled by government-granted “economic land concessions.”
A country with one of the worst deforestation rates in the world, Cambodia finds its forests depleted due in part to its population's reliance on wood fuel—and charcoal—as the main source of energy.
In Cambodia, the Aoral Wildlife Sanctuary is in danger of deforestation. Local villagers, who use and sell timber for a living, are forming volunteer groups to protect the land from illegal logging.
A system of legal deforestation in Cambodia may provide jobs and infrastructure, but the long-term environmental consequences could be devastating.
Despite environmental protection policies, Cambodia’s growing economy and population have caused one of the world’s worst rates of deforestation.
