Tonle Sap Conservation Project

The project would assist the Government of Cambodia to conserve and sustainable manage biodiversity and its natural resources in one of the world's moist important biodiversity sites. Proposed project objectives are: (i) to support economic development and natural resources management; (ii) to strengthen community-based natural resources management systems for rural development; and (iii) to conserve globally significant biodiversity through protection and/or sustainable use of resources in threatened components of the ecosystem and critical habitats. The project will do so through the strengthening of institutional capacity at key levels such as government and local communities and long-term management of the core and buffer areas of the Tonle Sap.