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Published: April 12, 2023
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The Ministry of Environment and the Kampot provincial administration have inaugurated a 16m bird observation tower to support tourism and research into bird species in the Anlung Pring Protected Landscape in Kampong Trach district, Kampot province.
In a village near the Mekong delta, conservationists pay farmers to keep their land safe and full of native rice for rare migrating cranes
Cranes, who used to flock to the land surrounding Khoay's rice field in significant numbers, are among the birds affected. Only 91 eastern sarus cranes visited Anlung Pring this year, according to NatureLife Cambodia, BirdLife International's Cambodian partner. The fate of these birds may rest with 16 farmers from Koh Chamkar village, including Khoay, who have leased their property to NatureLife.
In Cambodia’s fertile Mekong delta, farmers are switching to the rice varieties loved by the world’s tallest flying bird to help stop its decline