“Fires tore
through the Tonle Sap wetlands last year, destroying an estimated third of the
seasonally flooded forests that surround the lake.
From March to
July, when late rains finally arrived and extinguished the blazes, the fires
consumed an estimated third of the 640,000 hectares of the Unesco designated
wetland conservation area known as the Tonle Sap Biosphere.” (Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon and Kong Meta,
Phnom Penh Post, Friday 23 June
2017)
My village, Prek Toal, was
at the centre of this very bad fire. Our
villagers are badly affected by the fire – our economy, future and our
community. Worse that this even is the
long term effect this fire will have on Cambodia’s ability to provide enough
food for our people.
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