A Long-Awaited Move to Prevent Illegal Forest Encroachment in the Cardamoms

After two years of lobbying by Wildlife Alliance, the government of Cambodia’s Koh Kong province has made a tremendous step this week toward creating a plan that will hopefully preserve vast tracts of rainforest currently subject to rampant destruction in part because nobody has clearly marked the boundaries of protected areas. A newly created committee is now set to begin work create land-use plans to deal with forest encroachment in three key areas of the province.

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