More than 100 students have graduated from a masters degree program at the Royal University of Phnom Penh in Cambodia since its founding ten years ago, and nearly all of them are now employed in Cambodia’s conservation sector. The program, developed in part by the MacArthur-supported Fauna and Flora International, was created to counter decades of under-investment in education that left the field of biodversity conservation in Cambodia with a shortages of trained biologists and reliable biodiversity data. The resulting Centre for Biodiversity Conservation at the university now serves as a national hub for postgraduate education in conservation, biodiversity research, information sharing, and inter-agency collaboration.
