Jolie conservation group denies cutting project funds

The director of a conservation project in Cambodia funded by US actress Angelina Jolie today rejected a claim by a Cambodian non-profit group that she had stopped funding the programme, explaining that she had only changed its structure and management.

The Cambodian government in 2003 approved a forest conservation and poverty alleviation programme for remote areas of north-western Cambodia, for which Jolie has promised $1.3m (€2m) over five years.