Rare Cat Species Spotted on Camera Trap Footage
For a country that is roughly a quarter of the size of Texas, Cambodia is home to an impressively high number of wild cat species. Seven types of cats call Cambodia home, including the leopard, clouded leopard, Asiatic golden cat, marbled cat, leopard cat, jungle cat and fishing cat. On International Cat Day, July 8th, we celebrated all these species. In [...]
World Elephant Day – Meet the Rescued Elephants at Phnom Tamao!
Elephant populations are rapidly declining worldwide, and now more than ever, saving this iconic species needs to be a global priority. To help raise awareness about the plight of elephants, we celebrated the 5th Annual World Elephant Day on August 12th. Wildlife Alliance directly protects 720,000 hectares of tropical forest and preserves one of Asia’s last remaining elephant corridors in order [...]
Falsified permits are fuelling global illegal wildlife trade
July 29, 2016, The Star Malaysia publication: Wildlife Alliance Science and Global Development director Dr Thomas Gray said the exotic pet trade, even if legal, contributed to animal poaching from the wild. “In many circumstances, it is used to launder animals caught in the wild as ‘commercially bred’. “Many CITES permits are fake as it is physically impossible for all the [...]
Major Joint Rescue Operation
June 4, 2016 in Kandal province: A major joint rescue operation with our Wildlife Rapid Rescue Team (WRRT) and the Cambodian Customs Office saved the lives of wildlife animals. These wildlife include 8 Yellow-headed Temple Turtles, 21 Giant Asian Pond Turtles, 178 Asian Leaf Turtles, 4 Asian Box Turtles, 2 Burmese Pythons and 468 Rat Snakes. The operation came about [...]
The scent of a Civet
Large Indian civet Viverra zibetha occurs throughout mainland South East Asia into the Himalayan foothills of India and Nepal. As a characteristic species of the forest floor civets are disproportionately impacted by the pervasive snares – the silent killers – throughout Cambodia’s forests. Large Indian civets are valued for their aromatic scent glands and in this video from the Southern Cardamom [...]
Golden Cat of the Cardamom’s
The Asiatic Golden Cat (Catopuma temminckii) is one of seven species of wild cat found in Cambodia and may be one of the rarest. There are few recent records from the Kingdom of this IUCN Near-Threatened species whose global populations are impacted by habitat loss and poaching. In October 2014, Wildlife Alliance confiscated two golden cat skins destined for the international [...]
For a country that is roughly a quarter of the size of Texas, Cambodia is […]
Elephant populations are rapidly declining worldwide, and now more than ever, saving this iconic species needs to be a global priority. […]
July 29, 2016, The Star Malaysia publication: Wildlife Alliance Science and Global Development director Dr Thomas Gray said the […]
The Asiatic Golden Cat (Catopuma temminckii) is one of seven species of wild cat found in Cambodia and may be one […]