TRAPEANG TMOR POOLS IN BANTEYMANCHEY CAMBODIA

 TRAPEANG TMOR POOLS IN BANTEYMANCHEY CAMBODIA.

Reservoir rock pools with a large void as the freshwater sea in the rainy season, is a former construction giant irrigation Killing Fields era that has killed thousands of people have now been turned into shelter rare birds in the world

TRAPEANG TMOR POOLS where conservative cranes and animal diversity other irrigation systems, a huge and resort visitors half unprocessed located Khum Poy Srok, Banteay Meanchey Province, is located northwest of the country, about 425 km. From Phnom Penh and is located  northeast of the town Banteay a distance of about 66 km.

Some villagers in the area are still lot of sericulture and silk weaving tradition like Chik and commune Khum Poy Srok.
Currently, the area has a road canal several mazes connect from anywhere and connect the National Road No. 6, with fields, vast dach_kantouyophnek have roads ancient bridge crossing, which connects the capital of Angkor cut spanosreng cut Khum Poy towards the temple and mainland coal province Western Singapore (Prachin Buri in Thailand today). Etc. Roads, bridges, dams south of the basin, which is almost 900 years ago. It's a huge irrigation ambitious irrigation water for rice crop dry rainy and others built by the regime of Democratic Kampuchea (1976-1977), which claimed the lives of thousands of Khmer workers.
According to Kan Thol former Vice President Kang small of the unit at the pool, ponds battery testified to the Trial Chamber of the Tribunal on 10 August 2015, the facts groundbreaking dam reservoir ponds this stone that those who work at the dam site reservoir ponds rock in 1977 is are organizations forcefully. 15,000 people from other regions to participate reservoir rock pools. Children, including teenagers aged 15 to 18 years. Battle hot, heavy work resulted in 30 people fall ill every day: why is borne hot water and no sanitation. It was rich with many flies. When we get full meals are rouyrom soup kitchen. No drugs. Only thnaachtonsaeay.
Mr Kan said Thol you dig dikes day to 3 meters. Unit were more than 10 hours a day, from 7 am to 10 pm. Sometimes working night and day: final thrust veasapruk four times. Evening from 7pm to 10pm. From 10 am to 1 pm. Chap from 1 pm to 3 pm. From 3 pm to 5 o'clock in the morning. About five days. Five consecutive days it until seated. Sometimes some tsunami not too sleepy to sleep in the pit.

After 1979, the pool and protected areas have a total area of ​​12,650 hectares, this was not restored. But in 2000 the government issued a decree establishing a protected area cranes stone basin pond water in the upper area of ​​prenatal Flash fields, pastures and forests. Implementation of the project by the Forestry Administration and the Association of Wildlife Conservation (Wildlife Conservation Society: WCS), which until now conservative coalition of about 198 species of birds, especially the red-head cranes of the world's rare mammals and reptiles living species in biodiversity more.

Currently, this is a resort area pool water for farming and plantation farmers. Moreover, the government has created a rare animal conservation area in 16 categories. According to the census in April 2013 are: 1. cranes head red 305 head, 2-animal changkielokhyang 800 head, 3. animal kite Black 14, 4 animals storks color 59 head, 5- animals storks. 1 head, 6-animal smaonh 20, 7- animal Ok black wetlands 6 head, 8-bats big 1850 head, 9. pelicans gray 6 heads, 10-animal angkotkhmaw 2 heads, 11 kngao of its enemies, 59 head, 12 - whispered 1, 13 wild animals teakeaba 611 head, 14 wild animals teakeab 61 head, 15-storks Pearl 4 and 16 reindeer head 25 head. Wildlife number increased from 1 year to year, including the most endangered water bird type 1, type 2 endangered species affected and nearly 7 6 species threatened.

According to Sok Rithy, president of Task Force cranes pool pools rock ever told you gazettes news there newspaper Rasmei Kampuchea said: From July until nearly spring cranes head red not present in the reservoir, but after that it is present from 400-800 head at a bird rare endangered species such as storks write with 6 heads storks colors have 2,000 Adjutants than 10 head, quivering nearly 40 Ibis White there from 4000-6000 head securities Ibis white with 2 heads angkotkhmaw has a 18-20 head teakeaba forest nearly 20,000 head changkielokhyang there from 3000-4000 head gray flag have 3,000 head. And common birds such as bravuk 30000-50000 20000-30000 distinction jail tens of thousands of head Chreung. In addition, there are many mruk but counted only 70 reindeer inquisitive rabbit and antelope feral restore hundreds. Turtle species existing forestry administration and to unleash thousands of thousands.
But some reaching the pool did not know to play something to be happy apart from watching the water play pool memory of h Kuwait bamboo bed rudimentary and paying cement divisions, they rarely will see birds like Kreal reptile animals mruk other near the eye quite Besides using tools binoculars. Sok Rithy, president of the team krie rock pools, ponds, told said: "Tourists coming rock pools, ponds, at least for foreign tourists is 1 200 people each year in recent years. The guests often during Khmer New Year Pchum Ben and the Chinese New Year. " He said: "Guests want to look at foreign tourists visiting the water," he said.
After this basin restoration and repair irrigation systems, pools, ponds battery really has become a source of drinking water from surface water reservoirs approximately 5,202 hectares of fields and times srebreang and crops on 18,000 hectares of land. Anakasrokaeay approximately 6,600 families or 34,000 people have benefited from this pool. Groundbreaking project repair restore irrigation basins, ponds battery operated on Feb. 27, 2004 and put into operation, presided Prime Minister Hun Sen and the Ambassador of Japan to Cambodia Fumiaki Takahashi, on 09 March 2006, with all the budget totaling 2.018.340,46 US dollars as a grant in Japan, including the contribution from the Cambodian government some 307,412 US dollars in America for search and demining.
Wet rock pools, ponds, freshwater sea like a child looking dach_kantouyophnek. This reservoir can store water has an estimated 180 million cubic meters, but in summer 2015 surface water basin is a vast land dried up almost to the bottom. The reason that makes this pool mainland dried up almost to the bottom, there are 2 main drought lasting longer, especially the authorities opened a drainage disposal to work to repair the dam after threat by floods major in 2013, almost broken dam already. The Home News at the time, rain and waterfalls from Thailand and Oddar Meanchey province has made water reservoirs higher is theartuk pool up above the maximum 180 million cubic meters, up to 230 million cubic meters make fields vast sink filled with water damage rainy ruins and anguish.