One-third of all sex workers in Cambodia are estimated to be children, according to End Child Prostitution, Abuse and Trafficking (ECPAT).

Source:  Leif Coorlim, “Man goes undercover to combat child sex slavery,” CNN, February 9, 2010.

Between 1998 and 2010, the tiger population in Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Burma/Myanmar dropped 70 percent, from 1,200 tigers in 1998 to 350 in 2010.

Source: AFP, “Mekong tiger population at ‘crisis point’: WWF,” Yahoo News, January 26, 2010.

Authorities seized 2,700 cubic meters of illegally logged wood in Cambodia in 2009, up 400 cubic meters from 2008.

From 2006 till 2009, the Ministry of Agriculture has seized more than 11,000 chainsaws from illegal loggers and destroyed over 3,000 of them.

In addition, about 2,000 kilograms of dead and alive animals were confiscated from wildlife traffickers in Cambodia in 2009.

Source:  Khouth Sophakchakrya, “Illegal logging and wildlife trafficking prosecutions up,”Phnom Penh Post, January 7, 2010.

In 2006, $22 Million was lost in tax revenue due to beer smuggling in Cambodia.

Source:  Legislative Committee Report, “Illegal Importation of Alcohol into Michigan,” Michigan Liquor Control Commission, January 15, 2008, page 16.

The illegal logging trade is estimated to be valued at $13 Million a year in Cambodia.

Source:  “Cambodia,” illegal-logging.info, accessed: October 10, 2009.

According to a study released by Transparency International, 72 percent of Cambodians reported paying a bribe to officials in order to receive basic services in 2006.

Source:  Samantha Power, “The Enforcer,” New Yorker, January 19, 2009.

Up to 250,000 women and girls are forced to work in the sex industry after being trafficked, according to s study by the UN and Harvard University.

Several key findings of the report “Sex trafficking and STI/HIV in Southeast Asia: Connections between sexual exploitation, violence and sexual risk”:

• Girls in Indonesia and Cambodia were given drugs and alcohol to keep them dependant to their traffickers.
• 73 percent of victims rescued in Cambodia tested positive for sexually transmitted infections.
• Nearly 20 percent of women who were trafficking victims for longer than a year had contacted HIV.
• Many of the girls who are trafficked are between 12 to 16 years old.

Source: Tan Ee Lyn, “Trafficked women face high HIV infection risk – study,” Reuters, August 12, 2009.

The sex trade in Cambodia, where an estimated 50,000 to 55,000 women are held as prostitutes, generates $511 million a year.

Source: International Justice Mission, “Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation,” accessed on August 1, 2009.