Luxury Hotel Resort Threatens Bokor Mountain’s Biodiversity
An ongoing project to build hotels, luxury villas and a casino on Kampot province’s Bokor Mountain is a threat to the area’s unique animal and plant species, according to two new studies. Local conglomerate Sokimex Group has been granted property development rights on the entire mountain, which is officially a national park. In May, Prime Minister Hun Sen opened the first of three hotels the $1 billion development plan envisions will be built. … Concerns have been raised in the past about the mountaintop development’s impact on (…) wildlife, including tigers and elephants, which live on and around Bokor. …
