Cambodia

Cambodia is characterized by low plains and paddies, with mountains in the north and southwest. It has a coastline along the Gulf of Thailand. The Mekong River flows through Cambodia, and the country is hope to Southeast Asia’s largest freshwater lake, Tonle Sap. Most of the country is used for human activities, in its majority by rainfed agriculture. Cambodia has high biodiversity rarity of terrestrial land vertebrates at a global scale. When analysed as single taxons, the rarity of amphibians, birds, mammals and reptiles is also high. The rarity of marine fish and mammals is also high. Challenges to biodiversity include illegal logging and mining; soil erosion; illegal fishing and overfishing; and runoff sediment choking coastal ecosystems.