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According to the U.N. FAO, 57.2% or about 10,094,000 ha of Cambodia is forested, according to FAO. Of this 3.2% ( 322,000 ) is classified as primary forest, the most biodiverse and carbon-dense form of forest. Cambodia had 69,000 ha of planted forest.
Change in Forest Cover: Between 1990 and 2010, Cambodia lost an average of 142,500 ha or 1.10% per year. In total, between 1990 and 2010, Cambodia lost 22.0% of its forest cover, or around 2,850,000 ha.
Cambodia's forests contain 464 million metric tons of carbon in living forest biomass. Biodiversity and Protected Areas: Cambodia has some 775 known species of amphibians, birds, mammals and reptiles according to figures from the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Of these, 1.4% are endemic, meaning they exist in no other country, and 7.7% are threatened. 20.5% of Cambodia is protected under IUCN categories I-V.
2011 Update
2011 Update
In May 2011, Sassan Saatchi of Caltech's Jet Propulsion Lab and colleagues published a paper in PNAS with new carbon stock estimates for global tropical forests.
| Forest definition (canopy cover %) | 10% tree cover | 25% tree cover | 30% tree cover |
| Forest Area (M ha) | 13 | 9 | 8 |
| Aboveground forest carbon (Mt C) | 1,112 | 880 | 811 |
| Belowground forest carbon (Mt C) | 309 | 241 | 220 |
| Total forest carbon (Mt C) | 1,421 | 1,121 | 1,031 |
| Average Carbon Density (t C/ha) | 110 | 127 | 132 |
Cambodia Environmental profile | Cambodia pictures
The following contains data relating to forest cover in Cambodia
Previous version of this profile (2009)
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