Cambodia is well endowed with forest resource-some 63 percents of the country's total area under forest cover. However, localized population concentrations, the civil war over the two decades and the recent dynamics of wood supply and demand have a strong influence and have led to spontaneous deforestation over the last 20 years - around 2 millions ha. The main causes have been the development of agriculture, shifting cultivation, fuel wood harvesting, and logging.
