Benjamin Hayes
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11 Jun 2012
A Biodiversity Survey of Phnom Kulen National Park: Integrating Conservation and Community Development
This project aims to establish the first nature trails in the park and through tourism support and develop sustainable community patrolling that facilitates the conservation of this endangered primate and its habitat.
© Daniel Roper-Jones
Biodiversity surveys in Phnom Kulen National Park (PKNP) have highlighted an area of high biological diversity as well as water catchment value that is severely threatened by agriculture encroachment, hunting and forest fragmentation. Follow on surveys supported by the Mohamed Bin Zayed Conservation Fund have focused on the abundance and distribution of primate species within the park with an emphasis on the globally endangered Indochinese Silvered Langur.
These surveys have documented several groups of Langurs within the park and helped initiate in collaboration with local community groups and the park authority’s solutions for their conservation that both benefit the park and provide alternative livelihoods for local communities.