Cambodia: local people risk everything to defend national park sold off to highest bidders

http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2794921/cambodia_local_people_risk_everything_to_defend_national_park_sold_off_to_highest_bidders.html

Publisher:  The Ecologist
Date Written:  24/03/2015
Year Published:  2015  
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX17386

Botum Sakor national park is one of Cambodia's biodiversity hotspots. Now indigenous people are being violently evicted as the park is being sold off to developers for logging, plantations, casinos and hotels. Local communities are defending themselves and their land.