The Southern Coastal Cardamoms Project

www.icebv.net International Consultancy Europe BV

Katie Matlack, Analyst

International Consultancy Europe BV

Providing a full range of services for renewable energy, energy efficiency, energy consultancy, and biodiversity conservation projects across Asia and the world.


The Southern Coastal Cardamoms Project

Working with Wildlife Alliance and the Government of Cambodia to harness ecotourism financing for sustainable development and ecosystem protection in SW Cambodia.


Cambodia and Southeast

Thailand

You are

here!

600,000 ha project area

Bangkok


(photo of hornbill)


Haiti/Dominican Republic border area (2001)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Costs Of Mismanagement


To effectively protect what needs protecting, and to promote sustainable development when development occurs,

by• bringing ecotourism to the SCC

• promoting sustainable development• creating jobs, and

• conserving biodiversity,through

tourism and PES financing.

SCC Project Vision


1. Forest Protection

2. Alternative Livelihoods

3. Ecotourism Development

Project Activities


SCC Team

1 Wildlife Alliance - Main partner NGO to lead forest protection and agriculture activities

2 ICE BV - Project manager, financial transaction advisor * Prof. Pieter Van Beukering - PES advisor * Prof. Phil Dearden - Conservation advisor

3 Jetwing Ecoholidays Ltd. Tourism operator 4 Selin Maner - Architect 5 External consultants


Cambodia’s forests are 65%

gone

Forest Protection


Alternative Livelihoods

During the Khmer Rouge regime, farmers’ plows were taken away, giving them no alternative to subsistence livelihoods based on slash-and-burn

http://www.flickr.com/photos/keithkelly/409490300/in/set-72157594568545587/


Sustainable Tourism

In 2010 Cambodia expects to see

3 millionforeign travelers


SCC Team

1 Wildlife Alliance - Main partner NGO to lead forest protection and agriculture activities

2 ICE BV - Project manager, financial transaction advisor * Prof. Pieter Van Beukering - PES Advisor * Prof. Phil Dearden - Conservation Advisor

3 Jetwing Ecoholidays Ltd. Tourism Operator 4 Selin Maner - Architect 5 External consultants


WA

CI

FA

MOE

FFI

Key Project Stakeholders


Wildlife Alliance


Financing

Investment/operating budget (USD 30 M)•Barbara Delano Foundation

•Tourism Fees

•Carbon finance

•PES


Opportunities To Get Involved

• Engineering expertise in renewable energy/water systems

• Tourism activities

• Green supply chain

• 2010 family vacation?

• Financial, technical development partners


Katie Matlack, [email protected] Consultancy Europe BVwww.icebv.net

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