Cycling in Cambodia's Cardamom Mountains (Chi Phat Community Based Eco-Tourism)

Providing economic development in rural areas of Southeast Asia, while protecting the environment and wildlife, can be a major challenge. To address these related goals, Wildlife Alliance is supporting ecotourism development in the Southern Cardamoms Mountains, working with local communities like Chi Phat.

This commune of four small villages totalling roughly 2500 people is located in the Cardamoms Protected Forest, in an area that was severely affected by guerrilla warfare and bombing. Economic development stalled for decades due to conflict and economic isolation.

Covering 6% of Cambodia, the Cardamoms are home to most of the country's large mammals and half of its birds, reptiles and amphibians, including globally endangered and threatened species like Asian Elephants, Indochinese tigers, Malayan sun bears, Pileated gibbons, Siamese crocodiles, and Irrawaddy and Humpback dolphins. The Cardamoms includes a vast ecosystem with sixteen vegetation types, from dense evergreen rainforest to lowland swamps to coastal mangroves.

Wildlife Alliance began working in Chi Phat Commune in the heart of the Southern Cardamoms to implement Community-Based Ecotourism (CBET) as a way of conserving a region of exceptional natural and cultural significance. Wildlife Alliance is supporting Chi Phat in its effort to develop economically and ecologically sustainable tourism opportunities including trekking, mountain biking, wildlife viewing and bird watching, and improving access to waterfalls and Khmer Empire burial jar sites.

Read more about Chi Phat and other eco-tourism opportunities in Cambodia at the websites below:

http://www.responsiblenomad.com/
http://wildlifealliance.org/
http://www.livelearn.org/

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[562long]

Why does it have an idian song instead of a cambodian song?

[ResponsibleNomad]

@562long It's a remixed traditional Okinawan song from Ryukyu Underground. Haven't found too many catchy Cambodian songs yet for videos, but I am hopeful and looking diligently!

[C00K1E777]

@562long Cambodia also has a lot of Indian influence - it was indians who took the monsoon wind down to south east asia and went up to angkor, and along the way spread influence and culture to cambodian people. if im not wrong, angkor wat (the temple) was build by indians but they also used a lot of cambodian workers ;)

[562long]

There's plenty of great cambodian songs. download them or come here to long beach ca and you'll find it.

Im so proud with the worlds effort to protecting Cambodia's Cardamom Mountains. Its the home to thousands of rare and indangered species.

Nice video by the way.

[oypirousmaen]

niceeeeeeeeee!

[mrbikerental]

awesome!!!! no worry on gas short or engine breaks down on the way like those on bikes :P