page_title: Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary
section_title: High Conservation Value Forest
hierarchical_section_title: Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary / Biodiversity / National, regional, and global importance / High Conservation Value Forest
caption_attribution_description: English: Traditional Bunong house
context_page_description: Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary is a 2,926.9 km² protected area in eastern Cambodia, located in Mondulkiri and Kratié provinces. The area was first established as Seima Biodiversity Conservation Area in 2002, later becoming Seima Protection Forest in 2009, finally becoming Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary in 2016. The site is of national, regional, and global importance for a range of biodiversity, with more than 950 species recorded within the protected area. It is also the ancestral and contemporary home of a large number of the Bunong ethnic group.
context_section_description: During development of the REDD+ project a number of high conservation values were identified:
  HCV1: Forest areas containing globally, regionally or nationally significant concentrations of biodiversity values
  HCV 1.1: Protected Areas
  HCV 1.2: Threatened and Endangered Species
  HCV 1.3: Endemic Species
  HCV2: Forest areas containing globally, regionally or nationally significant large landscape level forests
  HCV3: Forest areas that are in or contain rare, threatened or endangered ecosystems
caption: Traditional Bunong house
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