Seima Protection Forest

This 3000-sq-km protected area may host the country's greatest treasure trove of mammalian wildlife. A recent world Conservation Society (WCS) study counted over 42,000 black-shanked doucs in Seima, the world's largest concentration, along with 2500 yellow-cheeked crested gibbons. An estimated 150 wild elephants - accounting for more than half of the total population in Cambodia - roam the park, along with bears and seven species of cat. The bird life is also impressive, and the jungle, which is Lusher and denser than the dry forest in
western Mondulkiri, has been relatively well preserved.
    The park remains difficult to visit, however. The only way in is with WCS partner and bird watching specialist Sam Veasna Center its bird guides are highly trained but ex-pensive at US$100 per day, on top of a flat US$30-per-person conservation fee. Accommodation is in facilities run by the Forestry Administration that were, rather ironically, once part of a logging camp.  

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