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

http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2794921/cambodia_local_people_risk_everything_to_defend_national_park_sold_off_to_highest_bidders.html
Date Written:  2015-03-24
Publisher:  The Ecologist
Year Published:  2015
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX17386

Botum Sakor national park is one of Cambodia's biodiversity hotspots. Now indigenous people are being violently evicted as the park is being sold off to developers for logging, plantations, casinos and hotels. Local communities are defending themselves and their land.