MAP Asia is a partner in the PMCR project, which includes conservation of coastal resources and mangrove restoration in Koh Kong Province. PMCR is under the Nature Conservation and Protection Department of the Cambodia Ministry of the Environment. MAP Asia has been a partner on this project since 2003

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DATe is working on a project in Tonle Sap, the Great Lake region, to promote the use of improved cookstoves amongst floating fishing communities in an attempt to reduce the cutting of trees for fuel wood in the flooded forest. Although the flooded forest of Tonle Sap involves a fresh water ecosystem, it serves similar functions as a mangrove ecosystem.

Work is now expanding on introducing smoke house technology for fish smoking at Tonle Sap, also to reduce wood consumption.

DATe, with MAP support, built a floating Community Resource Center on Tonle Sap to increase conservation awareness, especially amongst students, as well as to provide a place for community meetings.

The McKnight Foundation has generously supported both MAP projects in Cambodia.

Floating Community Resource Center on Tonlesap (685 kb)
Floated Forest Restoration at Tonlesap (pdf 91 kb)
Improved Fish Smokehouse Technology (pdf 705 kb)