Save Prey Lang Forest and its communities
Dear Samdech Hun Sen and Your Excellencies,
Please stop the destruction of the Prey Lang forest and support the Prey Lang Network for cooperative, community-based protection and sustainable management.
Prey Lang is the last large primary forest of its kind on the Indochinese peninsula. As one Cambodia’s most important remaining watersheds, it supports the food, water, and livelihoods for hundreds of thousands of people. Prey Lang provides habitat for as many as 50 endangered species and is a powerhouse to fight climate change.
We applaud the initiatives of the Prey Lang Network, representing the forest communities, to save Prey Lang. We support the Network’s call to the Prime Minister Hun Sen and the Cambodian Government to:
- Stop granting economic land concessions and suspend all those already granted in Prey Lang and the surrounding buffer areas;
- Give protected status to Prey Lang and keep and conserve Prey Lang as a heritage for Cambodia; and
- Recognize the Prey Lang Network to be partners with the government in co-management of the forest.
In the Kuy language, Prey Lang means “our forest.” We believe Prey Lang is so important that is belongs to the world. Cambodia is OUR forest, too.
Again, I respectfully urge you to take action to save Prey Lang Forest and to develop a sustainable management plan, inclusive of the Prey Lang Network and the forest communities.
Sincerely,
[Your name]
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