World Animal Day 2018
What is World Animal Day? On 4 October World Animal Day is a social movement charged with the Mission of raising the status of animals in order to improve welfare standards around the globe. World Animal Day 2018 To celebrate World Animal Day this year, we are highlighting three animals that are often forgotten or overlooked but are [...]
What is behavioral enrichment?
One of the main duties of our animal keepers at Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Center (PTWRC) and Wildlife Release Station (WRS) is to ensure that the rescued animals in their care are happy and are exhibiting the same behaviors that they would in the wild. Attending to an animal’s psychological needs is arguably equally as important as mending the animal’s physical [...]
Amari and Lori taken to Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Center
As I have promised, here is short a video of Amari and Lori, the two macaques we rescued from Angkor. Both have made a remarkable recovery and are in good health, as you can see. We need to keep Amari in a small cage during the time we are unable to give her direct supervision, because she is blind. [...]
The elephant with a prosthetic foot
Chhouk with forest patrol elephant Post by Nick Marx, Director of Wildlife Programs It is 11 years ago we rescued Chhouk from the Srepok Wilderness Area in Mondulkiri, as an orphaned elephant calf. One never knows where these things will lead and in the wake of recent events and in remembrance of Chhouk’s 11 year anniversary at PTWRC, it [...]
Raising awareness of wildlife and habitat protection
In late August, the Kouprey Express Team (KE) conducted two trips to Phnom Tamao Zoo, Takeo province. There were 92 teachers and 578 students from Kampong Speu province’s 4 core-schools – having Prambeymoom, Samroung, Phumin, and Watbeng core-school. This was a yet another great, happy trip with one another as we have done so many times with communities and schools from all [...]
International Primate Day 2018
International Primate Day 2018 On September 1 we celebrate International Primate Day, a day dedicated to preserving and protecting all primate species. Why conserve primates? The majority of primate populations are declining and most species are under threat from a multitude of factors including hunting, habitat loss, degradation and fragmentation, disease, and climate change. A [...]
What is World Animal Day?
On 4 October World Animal Day is a social movement charged with the Mission of raising the status […]
One of the main duties of our animal keepers at Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Center (PTWRC) and Wildlife Release Station (WRS) […]
As I have promised, here is short a video of Amari and Lori, the two macaques we rescued from Angkor. […]
Chhouk with forest patrol elephant
Post by Nick Marx, Director of Wildlife Programs
It […]
In late August, the Kouprey Express Team (KE) conducted two trips to Phnom Tamao Zoo, Takeo province. There were 92 teachers […]