A Beautiful Grassy Understory Combined with a Dry Dipterocarp Forest

Photographer’s remarks

Grassy understory combined with dry dipterocarp forest in Oyadav Protected Forest, Ratanakiri province, east of Cambodia. This forest is a seasonally inundated wetland and natural habitat that provides sources of food for a wide variety of wildlife. Interspersed within these forests are seasonally inundated wetlands; natural clearings that provide sources of food and water for a wide variety of wildlife, especially during the latter stages of the dry season. These wetlands, along with scattered permanent pools along seasonal river beds, form a crucial resource network throughout the dry forests ecoregion.