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Northern Plains
Proportion of the area of the contribution comprising Key Biodiversity Areas: 10.1%
The Northern Plains of Cambodia are the largest remaining intact block of a unique landscape that once covered much of Indochina. The landscape is one of the most spectacular and important areas of south-east Asia for biodiversity, with over 450 bird species and large mammals such as Asian elephants, gaur and banteng. Local communities, who depend on rain-fed paddy or upland rice fields for their livelihoods, supplement these activities with small-scale animal raising and collection of non-timber forest products. The Northern Plains Landscape covers an area of 543,912 hectares and is a mosaic of deciduous dipterocarp, semi-evergreen, and evergreen forest, interspersed with natural grasslands. It comprises four protected areas in Preah Vihear Province: - Chhaeb Wildlife Sanctuary (190,027 hectares) - Kulen Promtep Wildlife Sanctuary (238,255 hectares) - Preah Roka Wildlife Sanctuary (90,361 hectares) - Phnom Tbaeng Natural Heritage Park (25,269 hectares)
Potential conservation benefits in saving biodiversity
Potential reduction of species extinction risk resulting from threat abatement actions
The chart below represents the relative disaggregation of the selected contribution's total potential opportunity for reducing global species extinction risk through taking actions to abate different threats to species within its boundaries. The percentages refer to the amount of the total opportunity that could potentially be achieved through abating that particular threat.