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ScienceDaily: 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.
Research published today in the journal Conservation......
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Catastrophic loss of Cambodia’s tropical flooded grasslands
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 15th, 2013
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