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Prey Lang | One Forest, One Future

by Paul Stewart — last modified 2008-09-21 23:41

Prey Lang is the largest primary lowland dry evergreen forest remaining in both Cambodia and the Indochinese Peninsula. With an estimated 600,000 people relying on the forest for survival, logging and mining interests have the potential to destroy this critical, fragile and ancient forest habitat. This 12 minute short documents the struggle of locals against the logging and the remarkable Prey Lang forest.

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Produced by Jocelyn Pederick
Directed by Ben Pederick
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Produced 2008/09/18
Production Company Weekend Pictures
Duration 12 minutes 0 seconds
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Prey Lang is the largest primary lowland dry evergreen forest remaining in both Cambodia and Indochinese Peninsula and it's in jeopardy.

With an estimated 600,000 people relying on the forest for survival, logging and mining interests have the potential to destroy this critical, fragile and ancient forest habitat.

Healthy wildlife populations including endangered species such as elephants, gaur, banteng, tiger and Asiatic black bears are all at risk as well as the indigenous Kuy communities who protect and rely on the forest for their daily needs.

This short is a taster of the full version slated for release later in the year.

Copyright 2007, Weekend Pictures. Cite/attribute Resource. mouthtosource. (2008, September 18). Prey Lang | One Forest, One Future. Retrieved November 21, 2008, from EngageMedia Web site: http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/mouthtosource/videos/prey_lang_full.mpg. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Creative Commons License

Prey lang forest

Posted by Paul and Kay Sanderson at 2008-09-28 22:42
Having visited Cambodia we have seen Large tracts of the countryside denuded of natural forest, and the complete lack of wildlife, particularly birds.Of course rice must be grown to feed the people.
What wonderfull thing it would be if the forest main resource was the sale of carbon credits, [ccs].
Once the forest is logged, the resource is gone, and the damage to the environment and the water resources probably cannot be reversed.
Ccs seem to be at least part of the answer.
Good on you for helping draw attention to this very real world issue.