WCS partners with the Government of Cambodia in two protected areas
in the Northern Plains landscape, the Preah Vihear Protected Forest
(PVPF) and the Kulen Promtep Wildlife Sanctuary (KPWS), supporting the
conservation of these two protected areas. These activities form part
of the Conservation Areas Through Landscape Management (CALM) Project, a
seven year UNDP/GEF-supported initiative aimed at conserving the
globally important biodiversity found in the Northern Plains of
Cambodia.
The Forestry Administration (FA), part of the Ministry of
Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry (MAFF), is the agency responsible for
management of PVPF, while the General Department for Administration of
Nature Conservation and Protection (GDANCP), from the Ministry of
Environment (MoE), is responsible for management of KPWS. WCS also
works closely with several local communities, other provincial and
national government agencies, and local non-government organisations
(NGOs), to promote the conservation and management of these sites.
Support
has been provided by Akron Zoo, the Angkor Centre for Conservation of
Biodiversity (ACCB), the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF),
Danish International Development Agency (Danida), the Disney
Conservation Fund, the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the Jeniam
Foundation, New Zealand Aid, the United Nations Development Program
(UNDP), the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), the US
Agency for International Development (USAID), the UK Department for
International Development (DFID), WCS Trustees Eleanor Briggs and Elyssa
Kellerman, and the World Bank.