Zoning Guidelines for the Protected Areas in Cambodia.

The purpose of the Zoning Guidelines in Protected Areas is to identify appropriate zones with particular emphasis on biodiversity role and conservation, geographic settings, and sociocultural, and economic requirements in order that various strategies for protection, conservation and sustainable use of natural resources can be introduced to achieve management objectives of the protected areas.
Core zone shall be managed to achieve maximum ecological integrity such as protecting the highest conservation value containing threatened, endangered, and critically endangered species, the most fragile ecosystems, and other natural resources. Conservation zone shall be managed to achieve high level of ecological integrity, safeguarding areas of high conservation value containing threatened, endangered, and critically endangered species, fragile ecosystems, natural resources, watershed areas, and natural landscapes, often located adjacent to a Core Zone while still generating revenues from eco-tourism activities without or minimum impacts on fauna and flora in the zone. Sustainable Use Zone shall be managed for long-term sustainable use of the natural resources to provide the needed sources for effective management of the protected areas, development of national economy, and improvement of livelihood of local communities and indigenous peoples. Community Zone shall be managed for socio-economic development of the local communities and indigenous peoples who have residential lands, paddy field, and field garden or Sweden agriculture. Management of this zone is for use by local communities and indigenous peoples only. Management of this zone for non-local use shall not be allowed. Issuance of land title, tenure rights for use this zone shall be approved by the MoE in accordance with Law on Protected Areas and Land Law.