Forestry Management Unit

Preah PaliLay Temple

The Forestry Management Unit is in charge of the security of the monuments and visitors cause from risky trees factor. At the moment, the Unit is rescuesing at Preah Palilay temple which has 5 Spong trees growing on the temple and can be providing dangerous to the temple.

Among the five trees, there are two growing on the basement of the temple, which has 40-centimeter height and 60 to 80 centimeter diameters in average, and most of these trees have a hole in side. When they break or fall during storms or heavy rains some rock of the temple will open up, which make it to lean or collapse. Thus our team did a survey before cutting some part of these trees, in order to save the temple.

Cutting work is very difficult because the five trees grow on the temple; build the wooden scaffoldings (take more time) and avoiding the danger to the ancient structure or visitors. Even thought, the Unit has more difficulties but they effort to complete the work up to hundred percent.

Five Spong trees growing on Preah Palilay temple


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