Editing Angkor (section)

==== Looting ====
[[Looting]] was once a threat to the Angkor archaeological landscape. According to APSARA, the official [[Cambodia]]n agency charged with overseeing the management of Angkor, commenting in 2005, "vandalism has multiplied at a phenomenal rate, employing local populations to carry out the actual thefts, heavily armed intermediaries transport objects, often in tanks or armored personnel carriers, often for sale across the Cambodian border.".<ref>{{cite news |last=Perlez |first=Jane |date=March 21, 2005 |title=Siem Reap Journal; A Cruel Race to Loot the Splendor That Was Angkor |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E06E3DA1E3CF932A15750C0A9639C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1 |access-date=14 February 2017 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304114648/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E06E3DA1E3CF932A15750C0A9639C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1 |url-status=live }}</ref> Theft of archaeological objects has been greatly reduced in Cambodia since those comments were made.<ref>{{cite news |date=2 February 2024 |title=Cambodian government takes over management of three Angkor archaeological sites from World Monuments Fund |url=https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/02/01/cambodian-government-angkor-sites-world-monuments-fund}}</ref>