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Why the appellation is on the map
- The historical matrix for Koh Sralao in Bobenrieth, Sun Kong, Kong Kim Sreng and Mather (2012), Table 4, p. 19, row "Mountain Forest Cutting", says the cutting "was widely common from 1980 to 1990". It continues: "Cutting mountain forest to plant Indian Hemp (Cannabis indica) and to sell timber stopped in 1991 as a ban on this narcotic plant was introduced and the area was declared protected by MoE."
- The matrix's years are those of the forest cutting, which the same entry ties to the planting. No other year for the cannabis is given.
- "Indian Hemp (Cannabis indica)" is the name in a survey table. The assessment describes no specimen and no botanical identification.
- The entry speaks of people from other provinces who "moved to Koh Sralao motivated by personal safety". It does not call them refugees.
Growing status
No longer grown, 1980–1991, reason Banned. The entry says the cutting to plant cannabis stopped in 1991 "as a ban on this narcotic plant was introduced". It does not say who issued the ban.
Dates of protection
The 2012 assessment dates the protected-area declaration by the Ministry of Environment to 1991. The 2019 IUCN assessment of the Koh Kapik Ramsar site says the wetland is protected under the 1993 Royal Decree (p. 7). The article gives both.
Mountain forest on a mangrove island
Most of the Ramsar site's land is less than 2 m above sea level (2019 assessment, p. 3). The 2019 assessment also describes forest on the high ground where Koh Sralao village stands (p. 11), and catchment rainforest in the south-east of the site, with one place on Koh Sralao island supplying the commune's dry-season water (p. 5). Which forest the 2012 matrix's "mountain forest" was is not stated.
How the border is drawn
- The border is the island on which Koh Sralao village stands, about 4 km², the figure in the infobox. OpenStreetMap maps a larger, low mangrove island to the west under the name Kaôh Srâlau; the village is not on it, so it is left out.
- The border is not drawn from accession or news points.
- The border of Koh Kapik is drawn onto this island's coast, so the two borders share one line.
Sources
- Bobenrieth, Sun Kong, Kong Kim Sreng and Mather (2012): read in full. Koh Sralao village profile, p. 10; historical matrix, Table 4, p. 19.
- Sorn and Veth (2019): read in full for the setting; it has no cannabis text.
- Cambodia Gazetteer (National Committee for Sub-National Democratic Development): the Kaoh Kapi commune page gives Kaoh Sralau the village code 09030203. Read 21 October 2026.
- Not read: Marschke (2012), Life, Fish and Mangroves, which the 2012 assessment cites for the village's founding during the Second World War.