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conservation in cambodia
biodiversity hotspot
cambodia
french colonised 1850-1950
90% uninhabited
first wildlife park in asia
largly bombed during viet nam war
king disposed in 1970
free elections in 1993
impacts of history
records between the 70s and 90 are verry sparse
war creates places that people can't go and nature can recover
war creates social enequities so conservation isgiven less effort
wildlive generaly decreases during war
natural parks were all abolished butb most of them have been restored
forrests have gone from 72% to 48% from 1973 to 2014
highest rate of deforrestation of any country
mostly due to industrial clearance
smale scale land clearence
demand for land for individual farmers in on the increace
ilegal deforresting and logging for high value lumbet for luxury furniture
wetlands
nesting habitats of birds are being threatend
mostly due to rice farming