The Central Cardamom Mountains National Park is a
protected area
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in the central parts of
Cambodia
Cambodia (; also Kampuchea ; km, កម្ពុជា, UNGEGN: ), officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochinese Peninsula in Southeast Asia, spanning an area of , bordered by Thailand t ...
's
Cardamom Mountains, covering . It was established in 1999 as a
protected forest
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under management by the Forestry Administration, and in 2016 the
Ministry of Environment
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assumed responsibility.
[Sub-decree No. 69 on the Transfer of the Protected Forest, Forest Conservation and Production Forest Areas, and Economic Land Concessions between MAFF, and MoE. https://data.opendevelopmentcambodia.net/en/dataset/1cabf534-19a4-48bc-b926-6785aadd77ec]
The Central Cardamom Mountains National Park spans three provinces and is flanked east and west by
Phnom Aural Wildlife Sanctuary and
Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary respectively.
References
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Cambodia’s Central Cardamom Mountains National Park
Geography of Koh Kong province
Geography of Pursat province
Protected areas of Cambodia
Cardamom Mountains
Geography of Kampong Speu province
Forests of Cambodia
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