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“I’m proud to have brought the rain back”: reforestation revives Cambodian mountains

Source
UN Environment

Publication Date
2019-01-07

During the 12th century, people came to Cambodia’s Kulen mountain, a sacred place associated with fertility, to cut huge chunks of stone that would have to be hauled down by elephants.

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https://www.unenvironment.org/news-and-stories/story/im-proud-have-brought-rain-back-reforestation-revives-cambodian-mountains