Sustainable development is development which meets the needs of the present without endangering the needs of the future. From this concept sustainable development of forest resources in Cambodia is the way how to manage the forest resources for current needs and also consider the available resources for future generation. In Cambodia, forest resources play an importance role in economic improvement, social,cultural and livelihood of the rural people. Illegal and unsustainable logging by commercial enterprises, military, local authorities, and a growing rural population have resulted in high rates of forest loss and degradation. With the increasing of the population the demand of forest for their living such as house building, fuel wood, food has been increased day to day. Development of Cambodian forest resource must take place within a severely constrained and challenging context. In term of sustainable development of forest resource, the Cambodian government has taken a number of activities in recent years to solve problems in the forest sector. These include the preparation of policies and legal framework for long term sustainable management of forests, law enforcement against illegal logging, preparation of institutional framework to compose of different actors and rules that provide the incentives to behave in particular ways and ultimately determine the form that policy takes on the ground and harmonization the forest management system into the regional and global.
