The Canopy Global 1000 ranks the world’s land protected areas by conservation value: how irreplaceable the species they hold are, how connected they are to other protected land, and how intact they are, weighted by size. Plant data is being added to the ranking, so both versions are shown side by side. Neither is the final word.
Without plants, Kulen Promtep ranks 82 of 1,000. With plants it ranks 223. It stays in the top 300 either way, which is why it is here.
Management-effectiveness ratings published outside Canopy, each on its publisher’s own scale. They are not PACE scores, some are self-assessments, and different methods and years are never converted into one another or ranked together.
GEF METT score as published, unit not stated, 2012: 73, on a 0 to 102 scale; unit: METT score (raw points or percent, not stated by source).
Assessor: Project management team (same assessors each year), reported by the independent terminal evaluator. Old (pre-2011) METT scoring kept throughout for comparability; no maximum or unit printed. Series runs 33 (2006) to 73 (2012).
Scale: METT score exactly as published in a GEF project report that does not say whether it is raw points or a percentage. Never compare directly with a percentage scale. Source: UNDP-GEF CALM terminal evaluation, Northern Plains of Cambodia; Table 16, row KPWS, column 2012. Retrieved 2026-10-05. Kulen Promtep Wildlife Sanctuary is a CALM target protected area and matches the cohort entity; one row per site.
Sources checked for this area:
UNEP / GEF / Ministry of Environment of Cambodia: Project Implementation Report FY2022: CAMPAS, GEF 4905 (Cambodia, Eastern Plains Landscape). Not one of the five CAMPAS target sanctuaries; no score.
UNESCO World Heritage Centre: UNESCO World Heritage Convention: Cambodia (State Party page). Not an inscribed World Heritage property or component; no IUCN World Heritage Outlook assessment exists.
UNDP Evaluation Resource Centre / GEF: Terminal Evaluation: Establishing Conservation Areas through Landscape Management (CALM) in the Northern Plains of Cambodia, GEF 1043 / UNDP PIMS 2177, September 2012. Row for KPWS (Kulen Promtep Wildlife Sanctuary) read directly; counted.
Global Environment Facility / UNDP: GEF Portal Terminal Evaluation summary: Integrated Natural Resource Management in the Northern Region of Cambodia, GEF ID 9781 (UNDP). Row read: baseline 33 (undated), 67.00 at TE (undated); kept as an unresolved lead.
Retrieved 2026-10-05. A park with no rating here may still have one that was not found or could not be cited from a primary document.
4.58 million tonnes of carbon inside the boundary is irrecoverable: if it were lost, it could not be recovered by 2050.
2,515 km² of the area was forest in 2000, 61% of it. 1,256.0 km² of that forest was lost between 2001 and 2024, 49.9% of the 2000 cover.
Forest means at least 30% tree canopy in 2000. Loss counts any clearing, including fire and natural disturbance, not only deforestation.
Canopy’s PACE management score, its country readiness score (C-RISK) and its weekly satellite feeds cover African protected areas today. They have not been published for this area.
| WDPA id | 61943 |
|---|---|
| Canopy Global 1000 list | September 2026 edition |
| Boundary and area source | WDPA-Jun2026 |
| Forest source | Hansen Global Forest Change v1.12 |
| Carbon source | Noon et al. (2022) |
| Canonical URL | https://canopyconservation.com/park/kulen-promtep |
UNEP-WCMC and IUCN (2026), Protected Planet: The World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) [June 2026], Cambridge, UK: UNEP-WCMC and IUCN. Available at: www.protectedplanet.net.
Hansen, M. C. et al. (2013), High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change, Science 342: 850-853. Data: Global Forest Change 2000 to 2024, v1.12, University of Maryland, CC BY 4.0.
Noon, M. L. et al. (2022), Mapping the irrecoverable carbon in Earth’s ecosystems, Nature Sustainability 5: 37-46, doi:10.1038/s41893-021-00803-6.
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Canopy (2026). Kulen Promtep, Cambodia: Canopy Global 1000 rank 82 without plants, 223 with plants. Canopy Conservation, September 2026 edition. Retrieved from https://canopyconservation.com/park/kulen-promtep
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