ApocaDocs: Catastrophic Loss of Cambodia's Tropical Flooded Grasslands

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Posted Mon Mar 18 2013: from University of East Anglia:


	Catastrophic Loss of Cambodia's Tropical Flooded Grasslands http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1363632981 Around half of Cambodia's tropical flooded grasslands have been lost in just 10 years according to new research from the University of East Anglia. The seasonally flooded grasslands around the Tonle Sap, Southeast Asia's largest freshwater lake, are of great importance for biodiversity and a refuge for 11 globally-threatened bird species. They are also a vital fishing, grazing, and traditional rice farming resource for around 1.1 million people.... Factors include intensive commercial rice farming with construction of irrigation channels, which is often illegal. Some areas have also been lost to scrubland where traditional, low-intensity agricultural activity has been abandoned.

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'Doc Jim says:

Dude, where's my grassland?