Asia’s forests grow, but not in Kingdom: NGO

25 November 2013
The Phnom Penh Post
Community forest / Environment and natural resources / Environmental and biodiversity protection / Forest cover / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Land / Logging and timber / Ministry of Environment / Protected forest
Asia / Asia-Pacific / David Gritten / Laos / Papua New Guinea / RECOFTC / Regional Community Forestry Training Center / Thorn Sarath / University of Maryland

Forest land in Asia-Pacific countries has grown overall since 2002, according to a study released last week, but Cambodia was one of only three countries surveyed to buck the trend.

Out of 14 countries included in the study by the Regional Community Forestry Training Center (RECOFTC), only Laos and Papua New Guinea had lost more forest than Cambodia.

Overall, the report found that across the 14 countries, forest land had increased from nearly 492 million hectares in 2002 to more than 535 million hectares in 2012. Cambodia lost 420,000 hectares, amounting to about 3.8 per cent of the total. …

 Phak Seangly
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