WRRT Busts International Wildlife Smuggler – Rescue 86 Animals
The sounds of the city were quiet when the Wildlife Crime Hotline rang at 3:15am one early morning in March. On the line was one of the Wildlife Rapid Rescue Team’s (WRRT) trusted informants with a tip about a Vietnamese wildlife trader transporting wildlife through Phnom Penh. By 4:00am, the WRRT was already staked out near the Chrouy Changva bridge, looking [...]
Help us Buy Radio Collars to Release Rescued Wildlife in Cambodia
It is our goal to release every animal we rescue from the illegal wildlife trade back into the wild. Some rescued animals are not fit for immediate release & are rehabilitated at our Wildlife Release Station (WRS), located in a remote area of the Cardamom Mountains. To ensure the animals are safe when we release them into protected rainforest, we implement [...]
Endangered Tortoise Rescued and Bushmeat Confiscated from Wildlife Trafficker
On April 9, the Wildlife Rapid Rescue Team (WRRT) conducted an operation and raided a suspected wildlife trader’s house in Pursat Province. After inspecting the property, the team found and confiscated 13.8 kg of bushmeat from a wild pig and a Burmese hare. They also rescued a live water snake and two live elongated tortoises. The wildlife trader was penalized and [...]
Meet Doonow the tiger
Doonow is one of seven tiger cubs that were confiscated from a wildlife trader’s house in Phnom Penh in one of the Wildlife Rapid Rescue Team’s first operations in 2001. He has grown in to a very handsome tiger that loves water and enrichment. Keeper Rong works with him every week to provide new toys and scents in his enclosure, keeping [...]
The otter family
Meet the Leng Family The parents were already living at Phnom Tamao when Wildlife Alliance joined in 2001. They were likely rescued from fish farms, where they are seen as competition for livelihoods and often killed. Now with a safe home at the Rescue Center, they had their first litter in 2014 and have been wonderful parents, teaching their four young [...]
Meet Pey the Slow loris
Meet Pey Pey was rescued from a market on the outskirts of Phnom Penh by a well-meaning Cambodian who purchased her in an attempt to save her from a trader. She was found terrified, stressed, and in desperate need of medical attention. Slow lorises are the only venomous primates in the world, and can secrete a toxin from glands located on [...]
The sounds of the city were quiet when the Wildlife Crime Hotline rang at 3:15am one early morning in March. On […]
It is our goal to release every animal we rescue from the illegal wildlife trade back into the wild. Some rescued […]
On April 9, the Wildlife Rapid Rescue Team (WRRT) conducted an operation and raided a suspected wildlife trader’s house in Pursat […]
Doonow is one of seven tiger cubs that were confiscated from a wildlife trader’s house in Phnom Penh in one of […]
Meet the Leng Family
The parents were already living at Phnom Tamao when Wildlife Alliance joined in 2001. They were likely rescued […]
Meet Pey
Pey was rescued from a market on the outskirts of Phnom Penh by a well-meaning Cambodian who purchased her in […]