Botum Sakor national park is one of Cambodia’s biodiversity hotspots, where indigenous tribes have long lived in harmony with the forest and its wildlife, writes Rod Harbinson. But now they are being violently evicted as the park is being sold off piecemeal to developers for logging, plantations, casinos and hotels. Now local communities are defending themselves and their land.
Cambodian National Park sold off
Farmers from the Cham muslim ethnic minority in Phum Thmey commune in Cambodia's Botum Sakor national park, explain how authorities have burnt their neighbours houses and intimidated them to leave.
