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The Koh Rong Archipelago (KRA) was officially designated as Cambodia’s first, large-scale marine fisheries management area (MFMA), alternatively known as national marine park (NMP) or marine protected area (MPA). Currently, similar effort led by the national government in partnership with Flora & Fauna International is underway to officialise Koh Sdach Archipelago (KSA) as another MFMA in the country. However, recently, marine plastic pollution has been identified as a pressing threat not only to the marine life of these archipelagos, but also to the local economies and the health and wellbeing of local inhabitants. Therefore, primary research was done in KRA and KSA to gain a comprehensive
understanding of the status and drivers of plastic pollution in these locations, and the main goal of this document is to explore specific, locally appropriate measures for tackling marine plastic pollution in the ocean or on the shoreline (due to lack of other disposal alternatives).
The kNOwWaste Knowledge Platform was developed through a Project Cooperation Agreement funding by UNEP on 2016. The platform provides data and information on holistic waste management to stakeholders in Asia and the Pacific region. The platform was developed with the following aims: generate and consolidate data or information on holistic waste management, transform data into easily comprehensible outputs for use by key stakeholders, map out and disseminate information on international waste management projects under the GPWM and UNEP projects as well as other international partners, and provide capacity building support through dissemination of data or information support for relevant stakeholders on holistic waste and waste management system.
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