Cambodian Buddhist monk with an environmental crusade

September 21, 2010
United Nations Development Programme

Ven. Bun Saluth, a Cambodian Buddhist Monk with an environmental crusade

In what began as a Cambodian Buddhist monk’s mission to thwart the destruction of the environment has resulted in the legal protection of 18,261 hectare of evergreen forest in northwestern Cambodia, now called the Monks Community Forest.