The Japan Timesさんのインスタグラム写真 - (The Japan TimesInstagram)「Cambodia’s Virachey National Park is one of the last remaining areas of relatively untouched natural beauty in the fast-developing Mekong Region. “Logging and poaching is an issue but the park has a way of protecting itself,” Thon Soukhoun, who has been a ranger since the forest became a national park in 1993, tells Anton Delgado, Rainforest Investigations Network (RIN) Fellow and a freelance reporter for The Japan Times. There are, however, other threats surrounding Virachey. Cambodia is risking the regional biodiversity hotspot for renewable energy. The RIN and The Japan Times had access to confidential documents and maps from a series of private meetings between developers and Cambodian government officials. The documents show that there are three potential hydropower developments in Virachey. Conservationists fear the dams will jeopardize hundreds of thousands of pounds’ worth of conservation funding from Britain for the sake of “clean” energy, the very definition of which they challenge. The construction necessary for these developments would also threaten endangered species by altering river flow, flooding animal habitat and clear-cutting old-growth forest, according to environmentalists. Click the link in our bio to read the full story “In the Name of Sustainability, Cambodia Risks Its ‘Final Frontier’ of Biodiversity” by Pulitzer Center Southeast Asia Rainforest Investigations Network Fellow Anton Delgado (@antonldelgado_) for The Japan Times.」12月1日 10時59分