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Open Development Cambodia, an NGO in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, used US satellite data to show a significant loss of forest cover from 72.1% in 1973 to 46.3% in 2014. Most of the loss occurred after 2000. Most of the loss occurred after 2000.
The Cardamom Mountains rain forests is a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion in Southeast Asia, as identified by the WWF.The ecoregion covers the Cardamom Mountains and Elephant Mountains and the adjacent coastal lowlands in eastern Thailand and southwestern Cambodia, as well as the Vietnamese island of Dao Phu Quoc.
The forests of Cambodia include evergreen, semi-evergreen, deciduous, swamp, mangrove and bamboo forest in various conditions from closed to disturbed and mosaic formations. There are also re-growth and plantation forests as well as open forest types including evergreen shrub land and dry deciduous shrub land.
The dominant vegetation of the Stung Sen is open deciduous dipterocarp forest, permanent and seasonal wetlands and grasslands. The forests in the region are flooded in the rainy season. In the dry season, water recedes, leaving water only in a few permanent watercourses like the Stung Sen river and its larger tributaries and in small pools.
The project was the second demonstration site in Cambodia, following the development of the Oddar Meanchey Community Forest REDD+ (OM CF REDD+). [41] Over the 10-year period from 2010 the project is predicted to avoid 17.4 million tons of CO 2 -e emissions, [ 42 ] [ 16 ] equivalent to 4 million passenger vehicles or 4 coal-fired power stations .
The Central Cardamom Mountains National Park is a protected area in the central parts of Cambodia's Cardamom Mountains, covering 4,013.13 km 2 (1,549.48 sq mi). It was established in 1999 as a protected forest under management by the Forestry Administration, and in 2016 the Ministry of Environment assumed responsibility.
Southern Annamites montane rain forests (Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam) Cardamom Mountains rain forests (Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam) Tonle Sap freshwater swamp forests (Cambodia, Vietnam) Tonle Sap-Mekong peat swamp forests (Cambodia, Vietnam)
Pages in category "Forests of Cambodia" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.