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Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary
Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary is a wildlife sanctuary in western Cambodia, bordering Thailand. The sanctuary was established in 1993 and covers . It is also designated as an Important Bird Area (IBA). Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary is located in the Cardamom Mountains and the area comprises mostly forested mountains, but with many different habitats and forest-types, and the landscape is dominated by three discrete peaks: Phnom Samkos ( and Cambodia's second highest peak), Phnom Khmaoch (), and Phnom Tumpor (). History Historically, the sanctuary area has been inhabited by ethnic ''Por'' (or ''Pear''), the namesake of the broader term Pearic people. In Cambodia, ethnic groups living in the highlands of the country are all referred to as Khmer Loeu. Flora and fauna The sanctuary is notable for its large diversity of habitats, including several types of forests. The interior of the sanctuary is largely unexplored by scientists, but small-scale surveys suggests that many rar ...
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Habitat
In ecology, the term habitat summarises the array of resources, physical and biotic factors that are present in an area, such as to support the survival and reproduction of a particular species. A species habitat can be seen as the physical manifestation of its ecological niche. Thus "habitat" is a species-specific term, fundamentally different from concepts such as environment or vegetation assemblages, for which the term "habitat-type" is more appropriate. The physical factors may include (for example): soil, moisture, range of temperature, and light intensity. Biotic factors will include the availability of food and the presence or absence of predators. Every species has particular habitat requirements, with habitat generalist species able to thrive in a wide array of environmental conditions while habitat specialist species requiring a very limited set of factors to survive. The habitat of a species is not necessarily found in a geographical area, it can be the interior ...
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Geography Of Pursat Province
Geography (from Greek: , ''geographia''. Combination of Greek words ‘Geo’ (The Earth) and ‘Graphien’ (to describe), literally "earth description") is a field of science devoted to the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth. The first recorded use of the word γεωγραφία was as a title of a book by Greek scholar Eratosthenes (276–194 BC). Geography is an all-encompassing discipline that seeks an understanding of Earth and its human and natural complexities—not merely where objects are, but also how they have changed and come to be. While geography is specific to Earth, many concepts can be applied more broadly to other celestial bodies in the field of planetary science. One such concept, the first law of geography, proposed by Waldo Tobler, is "everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things." Geography has been called "the world discipline" and "the bridge between the human and t ...
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Protected Areas Of Cambodia
This is a list of protected areas of Cambodia. A total of 8 forms of protected area are recognized under the Cambodian Protected Area Law of 2008. These are: # National Park # Wildlife sanctuary # Protected landscape # Multiple use area # Ramsar site # Biosphere reserve # Natural heritage site # Marine park National Parks *Botum Sakor National Park *Central Cardamom Mountains National Park * Hun Sen Russei Trep National Park *Kep National Park *Kirirom National Park * Koh Rong National Park * O'Yadav National Park *Phnom Kulen National Park *Preah Monivong National Park *Ream National Park * Southern Cardamom National Park * Veun Sai-Siem Pang National Park *Virachey National Park Wildlife sanctuaries * Beng Per Wildlife Sanctuary * Chhaeb Wildlife Sanctuary *Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary *Kulen Promtep Wildlife Sanctuary *Lomphat Wildlife Sanctuary * Peam Krasop Wildlife Sanctuary *Phnom Aural Wildlife Sanctuary *Phnom Nam Lyr Wildlife Sanctuary *Phnom Prich ...
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Wildlife Sanctuaries Of Cambodia
Wildlife refers to undomesticated animal species, but has come to include all organisms that grow or live wild in an area without being introduced by humans. Wildlife was also synonymous to game: those birds and mammals that were hunted for sport. Wildlife can be found in all ecosystems. Deserts, plains, grasslands, woodlands, forests, and other areas, including the most developed urban areas, all have distinct forms of wildlife. While the term in popular culture usually refers to animals that are untouched by human factors, most scientists agree that much wildlife is affected by human activities. Some wildlife threaten human safety, health, property, and quality of life. However, many wild animals, even the dangerous ones, have value to human beings. This value might be economic, educational, or emotional in nature. Humans have historically tended to separate civilization from wildlife in a number of ways, including the legal, social, and moral senses. Some animals, howeve ...
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List Of Protected Areas Of Cambodia
This is a list of protected areas of Cambodia. A total of 8 forms of protected area are recognized under the Cambodian Protected Area Law of 2008. These are: # National Park # Wildlife sanctuary # Protected landscape # Multiple use area # Ramsar site # Biosphere reserve # Natural heritage site # Marine park National Parks *Botum Sakor National Park *Central Cardamom Mountains National Park * Hun Sen Russei Trep National Park *Kep National Park *Kirirom National Park * Koh Rong National Park * O'Yadav National Park *Phnom Kulen National Park *Preah Monivong National Park *Ream National Park * Southern Cardamom National Park * Veun Sai-Siem Pang National Park *Virachey National Park Wildlife sanctuaries * Beng Per Wildlife Sanctuary * Chhaeb Wildlife Sanctuary *Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary *Kulen Promtep Wildlife Sanctuary *Lomphat Wildlife Sanctuary * Peam Krasop Wildlife Sanctuary *Phnom Aural Wildlife Sanctuary *Phnom Nam Lyr Wildlife Sanctuary *Phnom Prich ...
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Cinnamomum Parthenoxylon
''Camphora parthenoxylon'' is an evergreen tree in the genus ''Cinnamomum'', tall. It is native to South and East Asia (Bhutan, Myanmar, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam). In Vietnam, the tree is considered Critically endangered. In English, ''C. parthenoxylon'' is known as Selasian wood, saffrol laurel, or Martaban camphor wood. It has the outdated heterotypic synonym ''Laurus porrecta'' (Roxb.). The species name ''parthenoxylon'' derives from ''parthenos xylon'' ( gr, παρθενός ξύλον), meaning "virgin wood". The common name in Spanish is ''alcanforero amarillo'' ("yellow camphor") and it is thought to be the tree known as km, ម្រះព្រៅភ្នំ (''mreah prew phnom''). Growth The tree has gray to brown bark. Its leaves are glossy green ovals 7–10 cm long with a point at the end. Like many plants in the Lauraceae, the leaves give off a pleasant smell when crushed. The flower ...
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Illegal Logging In Cambodia
Deforestation in Cambodia has increased in recent years. Cambodia is one of the world's most forest endowed countries, that was not historically widely deforested. However, massive deforestation for economic development threatens its forests and ecosystems. , the country has one of the highest rates of deforestation in the world. Deforestation has directly resulted from poorly managed commercial logging, fuel wood collection, agricultural invasion, and infrastructure and urban development. Indirect pressures include rapid population growth, inequalities in land tenure, lack of agriculture technology, and limited employment opportunities.Sin, Meng Srun. ''Forestry in Cambodia: The Dilemma of Development and Preservation.'' Phnom Penh: n.p., 2014. Print. The Cambodian government has played a large role in shaping the use of the country's forests. An unusually large area of Cambodia has been designated as protected areas and biodiversity corridors, over 38% (more than 7 million hec ...
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Monkeys
Monkey is a common name that may refer to most mammals of the infraorder Simiiformes, also known as the simians. Traditionally, all animals in the group now known as simians are counted as monkeys except the apes, which constitutes an incomplete paraphyletic grouping; however, in the broader sense based on cladistics, apes (Hominoidea) are also included, making the terms ''monkeys'' and ''simians'' synonyms in regards to their scope. In 1812, Geoffroy grouped the apes and the Cercopithecidae group of monkeys together and established the name Catarrhini, "Old World monkeys", ("''singes de l'Ancien Monde''" in French). The extant sister of the Catarrhini in the monkey ("singes") group is the Platyrrhini (New World monkeys). Some nine million years before the divergence between the Cercopithecidae and the apes, the Platyrrhini emerged within "monkeys" by migration to South America likely by ocean. Apes are thus deep in the tree of extant and extinct monkeys, and any of the ...
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Primates
Primates are a diverse order of mammals. They are divided into the strepsirrhines, which include the lemurs, galagos, and lorisids, and the haplorhines, which include the tarsiers and the simians (monkeys and apes, the latter including humans). Primates arose 85–55 million years ago first from small terrestrial mammals, which adapted to living in the trees of tropical forests: many primate characteristics represent adaptations to life in this challenging environment, including large brains, visual acuity, color vision, a shoulder girdle allowing a large degree of movement in the shoulder joint, and dextrous hands. Primates range in size from Madame Berthe's mouse lemur, which weighs , to the eastern gorilla, weighing over . There are 376–524 species of living primates, depending on which classification is used. New primate species continue to be discovered: over 25 species were described in the 2000s, 36 in the 2010s, and three in the 2020s. Primates have large bra ...
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Endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere. For example, the Cape sugarbird is found exclusively in southwestern South Africa and is therefore said to be ''endemic'' to that particular part of the world. An endemic species can be also be referred to as an ''endemism'' or in scientific literature as an ''endemite''. For example '' Cytisus aeolicus'' is an endemite of the Italian flora. '' Adzharia renschi'' was once believed to be an endemite of the Caucasus, but it was later discovered to be a non-indigenous species from South America belonging to a different genus. The extreme opposite of an endemic species is one with a cosmopolitan distribution, having a global or widespread range. A rare alternative term for a species that is endemic is "precinctive", which applies to ...
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Khmer Loeu
The Khmer Loeu ( km, ជនជាតិខ្មែរលើ ; "upper Khmers") is the collective name given to the various indigenous ethnic groups residing in the highlands of Cambodia. The Khmer Loeu are found mainly in the northeastern provinces of Ratanakiri Province, Ratanakiri, Stung Treng Province, Stung Treng, and Mondulkiri Province, Mondulkiri. Most of the highland groups are Mon-Khmer peoples and are distantly related, to one degree or another, to the Khmer. Two of the Khmer Loeu groups are Chamic peoples, a branch of the Austronesian peoples, and have a very different linguistic and cultural background. The Mon–Khmer-speaking tribes are the aboriginal inhabitants of mainland Southeast Asia, their ancestors having trickled into the area from the northwest during the prehistoric metal ages. The Austronesian languages, Austronesian-speaking groups, Rade people, Rade and Jarai people, Jarai, are descendants of the Malayo-Polynesian peoples who came to what is now coas ...
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