Hope for Endangered Species
Steve Galster, Founder, Executive Director of Freeland & Chief of Party for the ARREST Program, presenting on the achievements of ARREST at the closing press conference. Sept. 2016 Yesterday, ARREST partners released results of our 5 year, USAID-sponsored program which had 3 successful pilot projects that are set to scale across the region. We saved endangered tigers from poachers in a secret [...]
Dhole, largest carnivore remaining in the Cardamom Rainforest
Cardamom Mountains Dhole Cuon alpinus, or Asian wild dog, are the largest carnivore remaining in the Cardamom Rainforest Landscape and have a larger home-range in tropical Asia than tigers. As such they are restricted to Asia’s most remote and least disturbed forests and listed as globally Endangered by the IUCN. The Cardamom Rainforest supports an important population of these groups living [...]
Celebrating 10 Years of Zero Elephant Poaching
This year, Wildlife Alliance is celebrating ten years of zero elephant poaching in the Cardamom Rainforest. This monumental achievement is a result of the direct protection Wildlife Alliance has provided. In the early 2000s, the Cardamom Rainforest was a hotspot for elephant and tiger poaching. Between 2000 and 2006, 37 wild Asian elephants were poached in the Cardamoms. In response to this [...]
Successful Release of Critically Endangered Pangolin!
The Wildlife Release Station, which is designed specifically for the rehabilitation and release of rescued animals, recently released a captive born male pangolin. The Sunda pangolin is critically endangered so every successful release of this species is a major triumph for both Wildlife Alliance and the species. Pangolins are extremely sensitive creatures that rarely survive in captivity. The release station, however, [...]
A Decade of Zero Elephants Poaching in Cardamom Rainforest
Press conference, August 10, 2016: On World Elephant Day (12th August) conservation non-profit organization Wildlife Alliance celebrates its achievement of Zero Poaching for the Asian elephant population of the Cardamom Rainforest in the last decade. In the early 2000s the Cardamom Rainforest was an elephant and tiger poaching hotspot – between 2000 and in 2006, 37 wild Asian elephants were [...]
Upgraded Water Supply to Drought Stricken Village
The villagers of Sovanna Baitong, home of Wildlife Alliance’s Community Agriculture Development Project, have not had water in their reservoir since March due to Cambodia’s worst drought in 50 years. Thankfully, the tides turned in late July when Mong Reththy Group and Wildlife Alliance revealed a new and improved reservoir in the village. The two groups held a ribbon cutting ceremony on [...]
Steve Galster, Founder, Executive Director of Freeland & Chief of Party for the ARREST Program, presenting on the achievements of ARREST […]
Dhole Cuon alpinus, or Asian wild dog, are the largest carnivore remaining in […]
This year, Wildlife Alliance is celebrating ten years of zero elephant poaching in the Cardamom Rainforest. This monumental achievement is a […]
The Wildlife Release Station, which is designed specifically for the rehabilitation and release of rescued animals, recently released a captive born […]
The villagers of Sovanna Baitong, home of Wildlife Alliance’s Community Agriculture Development Project, have not had water in their reservoir since […]