The government has decided to create three biodiversity conservation areas on more than 1.4 million hectares to ensure the stability and safety of the ecosystem. Prime Minister Hun Sen signed a government decree on Thursday that establishes three conservation areas on an area of 1,427,980 hectares to connect protected areas in Cambodia.
 

A total of 757,661 hectares will be set aside for the Eysan biological diversity conservation area, 500,810 hectares for the Oddar biological diversity conservation area and 169,496 hectares for a conservation area in the Cardamom Mountains. “The biological diversity conservation areas do not include local land ownership, public interest land, local administrative areas, schools, hospitals and pagodas,” the decree said.
 

It added that the conservation corridors were created to ensure the security and stability of the ecosystem, to protect the natural environment, wildlife and plants, to maintain the natural terrain, help with natural resource protection and conservation and to mitigate climate change and natural disasters. The decree added the government would “encourage the participation of the local community as well as those relevant to the preservation and sustainable use of natural resources.”

 

read more http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/34861/three-new-conservation-areas-created-by-decree/

 

 

-- © Copyright Khmer Times 30/01

Very smart, the ecology in that area needs protection.