Eco-Camping in the Cardamons

CEOCambodiaNews · Post by **CEOCambodiaNews** » Wed Jan 30, 2019 7:52 am

Happy eco-campers: protecting wildlife in Cambodia
Cambodia holidays
A new eco-tourism camp keeps a remote forest safe from poaching, and offers a laid-back stay with creature comforts
Duncan Forgan

Sun 27 Jan 2019 12.00 GMT

The path to Preak Tachan ranger station, in Botum Sakor national park, Cambodia, snakes through dense, silent forest. It crosses bubbling rivers and clearings where luminous butterflies flit around gargantuan hanging vines and tall wild grasses. It’s The Lost World, Indochina-style. I half expect a dinosaur to come crashing through the foliage.

The 1,712 sq km park – in the Cardamom mountains in the south-west of the country – is home to rare wildlife such as the pileated gibbon, Asian elephant, clouded leopard and Bengal slow loris. But with the triple challenges of poaching, logging and sand mining, these critically endangered species, and the jungle they live in, are under threat.

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2019 ... t-wildlife

beaker · Post by **beaker** » Wed Jan 30, 2019 7:54 am

It's a cost effective way to clear land mines

Barang chgout · Post by **Barang chgout** » Wed Jan 30, 2019 8:17 am

Eco- what?
Cloudy leopards? Elephants?
Really?

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Fourkinnel · Post by **Fourkinnel** » Wed Jan 30, 2019 11:24 am

beaker wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 7:54 am It's a cost effective way to clear land mines

I should negative unlike the post but my warped sense of humor won't allow me too.

Barang chgout · Post by **Barang chgout** » Wed Jan 30, 2019 11:28 am

Currently the Yuri Sakor road is being turned into a 60m wide highway to Pramaoy. Should provide convenient access to what's left of the jungle enroute to wild alliances Areng valley.

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phuketrichard · Post by **phuketrichard** » Wed Jan 30, 2019 1:05 pm

Aren't most large roads thru the forests merely built to give easier access to the powers that be to cut down and rape the surrounding area?

Barang chgout · Post by **Barang chgout** » Wed Jan 30, 2019 2:04 pm

One from Battambang/ Samloat coming through too. Border crossing at Tmor Da any minute now I suspect.

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pczz · Post by **pczz** » Wed Jan 30, 2019 2:11 pm

phuketrichard wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 1:05 pm Aren't most large roads thru the forests merely built to give easier access to the powers that be to cut down and rape the surrounding area?

Play fair. the west has already built the roads and raped the surrounding areas. Its a bit unfair to deny the Cambodians the same right to get rich by trashing the planet.
Telling brazillians and cambodians they have to live in the stone age because we already chopped down the trees, burnt coal and covered the oceans in plastic is pretyy much people in glass houses throwing rocks about.
if the west really gave a damn they would be providing cambodians with green solutions and started digging up their highways and planting forests. Don't hold your breath. Donald Trump now has absolute evidence global warming is a hoax - americ is freezing thei weeek!

Queef · Post by **Queef** » Tue Feb 05, 2019 2:57 pm

pczz wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 2:11 pm
phuketrichard wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 1:05 pm Aren't most large roads thru the forests merely built to give easier access to the powers that be to cut down and rape the surrounding area?
Play fair. the west has already built the roads and raped the surrounding areas. Its a bit unfair to deny the Cambodians the same right to get rich by trashing the planet.
Telling brazillians and cambodians they have to live in the stone age because we already chopped down the trees, burnt coal and covered the oceans in plastic is pretyy much people in glass houses throwing rocks about.
if the west really gave a damn they would be providing cambodians with green solutions and started digging up their highways and planting forests. Don't hold your breath. Donald Trump now has absolute evidence global warming is a hoax - americ is freezing thei weeek!

since the "west" has already done it, we should encourage others to do the same even if we already know the results? What kind of logic is that? Do you even understand why organizations such as the EPA were created?

There are several foreign companies present and active in Cambodia promoting the use of RE and sustainable practices when conducting business.There was even a group of foreigners fighting against the Cambodian government to preserve a portion of the local rain forest (I don't know if they are still fighting though). Do some research.

In the end, everything comes down to rectifying the negative impact of some of the "west's" dodgy policies over the last century. Should we blame ourselves for trying to fix our predecessors' mistakes?

I hope you're not serious with that Donnie Trumpy quote. If you are, you should definitely take a few Environmental Science classes at your nearest community college. You might learn a thing or two.

You sound like you had a rough time in the "west". Don't let your bitter experiences blur your vision. We all die in the end.

pczz · Post by **pczz** » Tue Feb 05, 2019 8:22 pm

Queef wrote: ↑Tue Feb 05, 2019 2:57 pm
pczz wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 2:11 pm
phuketrichard wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 1:05 pm Aren't most large roads thru the forests merely built to give easier access to the powers that be to cut down and rape the surrounding area?
Play fair. the west has already built the roads and raped the surrounding areas. Its a bit unfair to deny the Cambodians the same right to get rich by trashing the planet.
Telling brazillians and cambodians they have to live in the stone age because we already chopped down the trees, burnt coal and covered the oceans in plastic is pretyy much people in glass houses throwing rocks about.
if the west really gave a damn they would be providing cambodians with green solutions and started digging up their highways and planting forests. Don't hold your breath. Donald Trump now has absolute evidence global warming is a hoax - americ is freezing thei weeek!
since the "west" has already done it, we should encourage others to do the same even if we already know the results? What kind of logic is that? Do you even understand why organizations such as the EPA were created?

There are several foreign companies present and active in Cambodia promoting the use of RE and sustainable practices when conducting business.There was even a group of foreigners fighting against the Cambodian government to preserve a portion of the local rain forest (I don't know if they are still fighting though). Do some research.

In the end, everything comes down to rectifying the negative impact of some of the "west's" dodgy policies over the last century. Should we blame ourselves for trying to fix our predecessors' mistakes?

I hope you're not serious with that Donnie Trumpy quote. If you are, you should definitely take a few Environmental Science classes at your nearest community college. You might learn a thing or two.

You sound like you had a rough time in the "west". Don't let your bitter experiences blur your vision. We all die in the end.

i did not say we should encourage others to do what the west has done. What i said was we should be providing proper assistance to enable them to do it better, and we should be doing more in the west to correct the damage we have already done.

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