Bird-Watching Tower In Kampot’s Anlong Pring Opened

Halal Tourism (Cambodia)

Phnom Penh, April 12th, 2023 —

Ministry of Environment and Kampot Provincial Administration have inaugurated a bird-watching tower at the province’s Anlong Pring protected area.

Environment Secretary of State H.E. Neth Pheaktra and Kampot Deputy Provincial Governor H.E. Ney Kong chaired the inaugural ceremony of the 16-metre-tall tower on April 11.

According to H.E. Neth Pheaktra, the bird-watching tower was built using the income from Cambodia’s carbon credit sale and aims to further promote the natural resource protection in the area.

It is also expected that the tower can attract local and international tourists, thus boosting livelihood opportunities for the locals.

The secretary of state thanked the provincial and local authorities, the community, and development partners especially Nature Life Cambodia and Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust for their active support in the conservation of the area.

Anlong Pring protection area is one of the four protected areas in Kampot province with a total land surface of 217 hectares in Chres, Koh Chamkar and Koh Tnaot villages of South Boeung Sala and Prek Kreus communes in Kampong Trach district.

H.E. Ney Kong shared that Anlong Pring protected area is home to at least 93 kinds of birds, especially cranes and some other endangered bird species that settle there from December to May.

The Ministry of Environment has been building ten bird-watching towers in Battambang, Banteay Meanchey, Oddar Meanchey, Prey Veng, Takeo, Kampot, Kep and Kampong Cham.

Seven of them, including the one in Kampot, have been completed and put into use.