Vistas from the Ocean of Trees lookout near Sen Monorom, Mondulkiri Province, northeast Cambodia

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The 'dry tropical' monsoonal forests of northeast Cambodia are being cleared and degraded at an alarming rate. Forest reserves appear to exist only on paper, as 'protected' forests are cleared for cashew or rubber plantations, or stripped of prized timbers like rosewood by illegal loggers.

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Size: 5300px × 3520px
Location: Sen Monorom, Mondulkiri Province, Cambodia
Photo credit: © Philip Game / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: asia, asian, cambodia, cambodian, conservation, country, developing, east, forests, indochina, khmer, mondulkiri, monorom, monsoonal, pacific, sen, south, southeast, tropical, world