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1 Cambodia By: Lena Rae Fortun Grade 4, Tamarac Elementary School An Environmental Report

2 ●Interview with a Cambodian citizen ●Drafting memos for in-depth information analysis ●Drafting annotations of a broad scope of articles Methods of Data Acquisition

3 ●The capital of Cambodia is Phnom Penh. Cambodia is located in south- east Asia. ● Cambodia has a multiparty democracy under a constitutional monarchy. ● Most of Cambodia is forests. Yet the forests are being chopped down and destroyed. Geography

4 ●Die 15.78 years sooner ●Be 8.3% more likely to die in the first 3 years in your life ●Have 81.82% more children ●Make 95.08% less money Cambodia in Comparison To The United States

5 ●Tonle-Sap Mekong Swamp Forest (zone 2) ●Central Indochina Dry Forests (zone 3) ●Indochina Mangroves (zone 5) In Cambodia there are a total of seven ecozones. EcoZones Of Cambodia

6 Imports ● Cigarettes ● Gold ● Machinery ● Motor Vehicles ● Construction Materials ● Petroleum Products Exports ●Clothing ●Timber ●Rice ●Fish ●Tobacco ●Footwear Imports And Exports

7 Angkor Wat: Case Study 1 ●Most famous landmark in Cambodia ●Has become very polluted because of many tourists ●Limited to 2,000 tourists a day ●People say different things about what is causing air pollution in Cambodia

8 The Mekong River: Case Study 2 ●Main water source in Cambodia ●Provides food to families ●Along the river is mostly factories ●Provides a place to live for some people ●It is very important to keep the Mekong River healthy

9 Deforestation: Case Study 3 ● Deforestation is a huge problem in Cambodia ● Since one of their exports is timber, they are doing it to make more money ● There is a group that is trying to reforest Cambodia ● People think that since there are a lot of forests in Cambodia,they will never run out ● But really they will ● Cambodia’s forest went from over 80% down to 3.1%

10 Things They Can Do! ● The factories along the Mekong River can try to put their waste somewhere else ● Stop cutting down so many trees and put some of the money they get into reforesting groups

11 More Research is Needed ● I still have not found out everything on Cambodia. ● Yet I have learn many environmental issues/solutions. ● I have had conflicting data …………………………………………………………………..

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