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With funding from the Rainforest Trust, ������ϲʿ�������ֳ�ֱ�� is cooperating with Cambodia’s Ministry of Environment (MOE) to establish a karst protected landscape in Kampot Province. The proposed new protected area includes Phnom La’Ang, which is by far the largest and most intact karst hill - the biodiversity “jewel in the crown.” A summary of its importance is attached.

������ϲʿ�������ֳ�ֱ�� and MOE have organised two plant and invertebrate surveys of Phnom La’Ang led by Dr. Jaap Vermeulen, a renowned karst specialist with extensive experience in the MDL. Part of Phnom La’Ang is under concession. ������ϲʿ�������ֳ�ֱ�� has recommended that all of the hill be protected and that quarrying be moved to hills of lower conservation value. MOE is currently considering the recommendation. 

Cambodia needs cement but has the opportunity to meet its essential development needs at lowest environmental cost. The legal protection of Phnom La’Ang would be a conservation outcome of global significance and a huge credit to the Royal Government of Cambodia in general and to MOE in particular.

A plant in Phnom La'Ang © Jaap Jan Vermeulen