This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Rainforest Investigations Network where Gerald Flynn was a fellow. Names have been changed to protect sources who said they feared reprisals from the authorities. KOH KONG, Cambodia In April 2022, the sound of a sawmill cut through the murky dawn that was steaming over Cambodia’s western […]
The government and international donors on March 24 launched the Legacy Landscape Fund for the Central Cardamom Mountains National Park. The fund aims to improve the management of the protected area.
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.