Saturday, April 7, 2012

Protect The Cardamom Mountains

By Jon Hendricks


The Cardamom Mountains are a mountain range in Cambodia. They are a really beautiful mountain range. Unfortunately it is suffering the ravages of the human population. Illegal hunting, forestry and land clearance have all taken a major toll on this beautiful mountain range. This is where the Cardamom Project comes into play.

The organization can be found at its head quarters in New York city and has dedicated itself to trying to preserve the Cardamom Mountains. It is actually a non profit organisation and has only got two goals in mind for the cardamom range.

They are attempting to raise awareness among the public and the locals about how the mountains are being negatively affected by all of the human activity. Many people are not aware of just how much damage things like logging and poaching do to the mountains. The project raises this awareness as best they can through running all kinds of fund raisers and donating the proceeds to the effort.

The organization is also trying to make the mountains a path to renewal for the Cambodians. Cambodia has faced many years of hardship and need a helping hand getting back in touch with their natural heritage. The aim is to educate the locals and get them to care for their section of the mountain range and stop the destruction in its tracks and help the range renew itself.

The cardamom project is truly a wonderful concept. There really ought to be more like that in the world. There are plenty of other natural areas which would benefit greatly from this type of dedication and assistance.

We really should protect our natural heritage. We all need to catch a wakeup and start to campaign for our natural surroundings. We have done enough damage now. There are people out there willing to help, we just have to give them a cause to help with. Do something now before it is too late for your corner of the earth. You cannot restore something that is gone completely but you can stop a lot of the damage from totally destroying your natural heritage if you start now.




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