Tonle Sap’s Flooded Forests Decimated, Gov’t Says
About 160,000 hectares of the flooded forest surrounding the Tonle Sap lake have been destroyed by commercial rice farming operations in the past five years, including vital fish habitat areas, officials said Tuesday.
Tonle Sap Authority Secretary General Chan Yuttha said a comparison of aerial photographs from 2005 and 2010 indicated that out of a total of 700,000 hectares of flooded forest, 160,000 hectares or bout 20 percent had been lost in the six provinces surrounding the Tonle Sap.
Most of the flooded forest destruction occurred in Kompong Thom, Siem Teap and Kompong Chhnang province, where businessmen have undertaken large scale land conversions for commercial rice farming, Mr Yuttha said. Last Updated on Friday, 03 September 2010 02:58



2010-09-02
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