Visit the Mondulkiri
Protected Forest!
Southeast Asia's last Wilderness area.
Discover one of the World's great Biodiversity Hot
Spots and help local communities conserve the forest.
The Mondulkiri Protected Forest
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| Wild Banteng in the Mondulkiri Protected
Forest
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The Mondulkiri Protected Forest is a protected area of nearly 400,000 hectares located in the Eastern Plains Landscape of Mondulkiri province, Cambodia. The area is considered an important representative sample of the Lower Mekong Dry Forest Ecoregion and was designated as a Protected Forest by The Royal Government of Cambodia in July 2002. It is managed by Cambodia’s Forest Administration, with technical support from WWF.
This area is truly the last great wilderness area in SE East Asia. It was largely unprotected until WWF began working there in 2002. The WWF project highlights the importance of involving local people in conservation and ensuring that they have a stake in protecting wildlife. The Project is helping to restore the natural wildlife populations and provide local people with pathways out of poverty.
WWF’s long-term vision is for the Eastern Plains Landscape, a landscape covering almost 1 million ha (or half the size of Wales), to remain intact and connected, providing a haven for tiger, Asian elephant, and a whole host of other key wildlife species in a mosaic of protected areas and wildlife corridors and sustainably managed forests.
Protecting such a large landscape will enable tiger populations and their prey to breed safely, to form territories and to expand into surrounding areas. WWF has already succeeded in improving protected area management in this landscape, creating connections and wildlife corridors, and is building on anti-poaching and sustainable forest management to secure the overall landscape for tigers.
The other major protected areas in the landscape include Yok Don National Park, Yok Don extension, and Bu Gia Map in Vietnam and Snoul Wildlife Sanctuary, Lomphat Wildlife Sanctuary, Phnom Prich Wildlife Sanctuary, and Phnom Nam Lyr Wildlife Sanctuary and the Mondulkiri Protected Forest in Cambodia. The Mondulkiri Protected Forest acts as a corridor between Lomphat, Phnom Prich, Phnom Nam Lyr and the Yok Don complex in Vietnam.
The landscape supports many large and wide-ranging species, especially the large mammals and birds that are characteristic of the dry forests of Indochina, such as the Asian elephant, tiger, banteng, Eld's deer, gaur, wild water buffalo, dhole and several large birds such as Sarus crane, giant ibis, lesser adjutant, green peafowl, long-billed vulture, white-rumped vulture, and white-shouldered ibis. Many of these species are globally threatened landscape species.
The Dei Ey Community-based Tourism Project
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| The Dei Ey Community Lodge
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Dei Ey (pronounced like English Day "A") is an ethnic Phnong Community living in the middle of the Mondulkiri Protected Forest. The community has a long history of living in this forest having left only during the Khmer Rouge period.
With a view to engage the Dei Ey Community in a partnership of stewardship of their forest resources. WWF and the Forest Administration have worked together with the community to increase awareness about the value and the sustainable use of forest resources as well as protecting and guaranteeing their land rights. The community has defined which areas of the forest can be used for agriculture, from which areas forest products can be harvested and which areas under strict conservation.
The Dei Ey Community Forest lies on a strategic wildlife migration corridor between the Phnom Prich. The protection of wildlife corridors is an important part of the strategy to protect wildlife habitat ensuring the growth of wildlife populations and their expansion into neighboring areas.
Tourism adds value to the forest from which the Phnong earn a livelihood and gives them a livelihood dependant on the conservation of biodiversity of their forest.
Visit Dei Ey and support Biodiversity Conservation
When you visit the Dei Ey Community you are supporting the protection of a community forest and the conservation of wildlife. In addition to supporting the livelihoods of the community, through guiding fees, purchase of food and accommodation, part of the money that you spend is given directly to the community for conservation activities like patrolling for poachers and encroachment as well as monitoring of wildlife.
The Attractions
- The Mondulkiri Protected Forest
- Phnong Spirit Forests
- Wildlife Corridors
- Community Forest
- Trekking
- Camping
- The life and culture of the Phnong People
- Elephant Walk
- Wild Honey Harvest
- Birdwatching
Mondulkiri Tourist information
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Tourism for ConservationSam Veasna CenterElephant Valley ProjectChipatMlup Baitong |
Cambodian Conservation OrganizationsWWFWCSSave Cambodia's WildlifeWildlife AllianceBirdlife Int'lConservation InternationalFlora And Fauna InternationalThe Learning InstituteMaddox Jolie-Pitt FoundationMlup BaitongACCB |
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