Yann Bigant is a drone pilot based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Since 2021, he has been taking drone photos of the country’s cities, forests, wetlands, coasts and farmland, along drone videos for NGOs.
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Song Saa Reserve, Boeung Chhouk, Siem Reap.
Cambodia’s rich wetlands
Cambodia’s rich wetlands: illegal fish traps in Stung Sen Ramsar (top left); Prey Nup estuary and mudflats (top right) and mangrove forest (bottom left); Floating house in Stung Sen Ramsar (bottom right).
The biodiverse mangrove forests of Koh Kapik Ramsar, in southern Cambodia.
Coastal fishing communities
Cambodia’s coastal wetlands and fishing communities: Lab Nam village in Koh Kapik Ramsar (top left); the thriving fishing community of Koh Sdach (top right); Koh Sralau village in Koh Kapik Ramsar (bottom).
Rural communities
Cambodia’s countryside: farmers/fishermen houses near Siem Reap (top left); unprotected wetlands where the upcoming Funan Techo canal is planned to reach the sea near Kep (top right); the karst and climbing cliffs of Kampong Trach (bottom left); farming areas during the dry season (bottom right).Left to right: rice fields before harvest on the edge of the Tonle Sap; the Prey Nup mangroves on the southern coast; Phnom Aoral, Cambodia’s highest summit in the Eastern Cardamoms.
Phnom Penh
Phnom Penh and its relentless expansion into surrounding wetlands.