Education intervention in a wildlife trade hotspot
One of the key pillars to reducing demand for wildlife for meat and medicine is raising awareness of its dangers, with intervention especially needed in hot spots of the wildlife trade. On March 27, the Kouprey Express (KE), Wildlife Alliance's mobile environmental education team, gave classroom lessons to 35 students at Preah Kosamak Sihanok Primary School and held a Community Night [...]
Endangered dholes in the Cardamom Rainforest – VIDEO
Dhole (Cuon alpinus), a globally Endangered species of wild dog, are often overlooked predators as they share the same habitat as tigers, leopards, and clouded leopards. These adept hunters, also known as cinnamon wolves, are remarkable cooperative hunters and can take down large prey, such as Gaur, up to 50 times their weight. Unfortunately, their populations are shrinking due to habitat [...]
Released leopard cat continues to thrive in the wild
The female leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis) we released from our Wildlife Release Station in December was spotted one late afternoon near a guest chalet. Rescued as a kitten from the illegal pet trade, she is thriving in her new life in the wild. The WRS keepers continue to track her with a tracking collar but it is always a rare treat [...]
Phnom Penh Ivory Shop Owner Arrested
Last month, with information from an informant, the Wildlife Rapid Rescue Team (Cambodia’s multi-agency wildlife law enforcement unit which is run with technical and financial support from Wildlife Alliance) investigated an ivory carving shop in Phnom Penh. The WRRT, accompanied by local police, local Forestry Administration officials, and the Deputy Prosecutor of Phnom Penh Court, raided the suspects home and found [...]
Meet Micah the rescued sun bear
In June of 2018, we received a young Sun Bear cub from Stung Treng province after he was donated to another NGO, Birdlife International, by a villager. Given he was only approximately 4 months old, we immediately transferred Micah to our Wildlife Release Station in the Cardamom Mountains to give him the best chance of being released back into the wild. [...]
Kouprey Express February Activities
In February, the KE conducted three trips to Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Centre (PTWRC). On February 1st, the KE team led teachers and students from New Hope of Cambodian Children, an NGO in Kampong Speu province around PTWRC following their classroom wildlife lessons they had the day prior. On February 22nd and 24th, the KE team conducted PTWRC trips with teachers [...]
One of the key pillars to reducing demand for wildlife for meat and medicine is raising awareness of its dangers, with […]
The female leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis) we released from our Wildlife Release Station in December was spotted one late afternoon […]
Last month, with information from an informant, the Wildlife Rapid Rescue Team (Cambodia’s multi-agency wildlife law enforcement unit which is run […]
In June of 2018, we received a young Sun Bear cub from Stung Treng province after he was donated to another […]
In February, the KE conducted three trips to Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Centre (PTWRC).
On February 1st, the KE team led teachers […]