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Five men on the beach, pulling large amounts of tangled nets from a docked fishing boat.
"River Guards" removing gill nets.
© WWF-Cambodia

Mainstreaming Biodiversity Values into Land-Use Decision Making in Cambodia’s Mekong Flooded Forest

Grantee Name: World Wide Fund for Nature

Hotspot
Indo-Burma
Location
Cambodia
Amount
$119,750
Dates
Feb 2016 – Jun 2018
Keywords
Biodiversity mainstreaming, Community-based conservation, Fisheries, Forestry, Land tenure, Land use planning

Ensure sustainable land-use planning and management across the Mekong Flooded Forest Landscape in Cambodia. Enable informed, collaborative land-use decision-making by community, private sector and government stakeholders. Strengthen communities' rights to sustainably use natural resources; integrate key biodiversity resources into landscape zoning through the establishment of community-conserved areas; and develop a management plan for the Mekong Fisheries Biodiversity Conservation and Management Area.

Strategic Direction :

6 Engage key actors in mainstreaming biodiversity, communities and livelihoods into development planning in the priority corridors

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