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Grassroots Activists Work to Save Remaining Cardamom Mountains Rainforest
The burden of safeguarding the region’s rich resources falls on local environmental groups and a small number of park rangers.
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March 05, 2021
Park rangers from the Thmor Bang ranger outpost in the Cardamom Mountains trek through the forest in search of illegal logging and poaching operations. A handful of rangers are responsible for protecting over 400,000 hectares of forest.
Credit: Joe Patchett
The Cardamom Mountains contain the largest watershed forest in Cambodia, consisting of over 800,000 hectares of dense monsoon forest, a vast network of estuaries and rivers, and extensive mangrove forests, pictured here.
Officials seek to study flying lizard in Stung Treng phnompenhpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from phnompenhpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Stung Treng provincial Department of Environment is looking to study the flying lizard, known by its scientific name as Draco maculates, in the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary after one of the reptiles was found dead there.
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Find out what to do in Phnom Penh, Kampot, Kep and Koh Rong with Nick Redmayne’s guide to Cambodia.
The days when crowds would gather to watch the sunrise at Angkor Wat, searching for a moment of spiritual stillness in spite of the swarm of camera-clicking tourists around them, feel like a very distant memory.
Until last year, Cambodia’s biggest temple complex was drawing ever-increasing hordes of tourists keen to follow in Angelina Jolie’s Tomb Raider footsteps. Yet visitors rarely ventured any farther, often flying in and out of Siem Reap as an adjunct to tours of Thailand or Vietnam.