Cambodia: local people risk everything to defend national park sold off to highest bidders

24 March 2015
The Ecologist
Concessions / Economic land concessions and plantations / Human rights / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Social development
Botum Sakor National Park / Dara Sakor Seashore Resort / Khem Chandy / Tianjin Union Development Group (UDG)

Botum Sakor national park is one of Cambodia’s biodiversity hotspots, where indigenous tribes have long lived in harmony with the forest and its wildlife, writes Rod Harbinson. But now they are being violently evicted as the park is being sold off piecemeal to developers for logging, plantations, casinos and hotels. Now local communities are defending themselves and their land. …

 Rod Harbinson
http://bit.ly/1NdKSoz

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