Protecting Biodiversity by Supporting People

Restoring the Flooded Forest in Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake

Grantee Name: Conservation International

Hotspot: Indo-Burma
Location: Cambodia
Amount: $157,000
Dates: Feb 2023 – Jun 2025
Keywords: Community-based conservation, Habitat conservation and management, Reforestation, Restoration, Ecosystem resilience

Restore the ecosystem of Tonle Sap Lake and build its resilience to future climate and hydrological change by developing and demonstrating best practices in flooded forest restoration. Develop new methods for restoring currently rare but previously dominant tree species. Disseminate results to communities, non-governmental organizations and government agencies, with the aim of scaling up across the lake and its inundation zone.

Strategic Direction :

6 Demonstrate scalable approaches for integrating biodiversity and ecosystem services into development planning in the priority corridors