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A day in the life of the Kouprey Express environmental educator

A day in the life of the Kouprey Express (KE) - take a tour of Phnom Tamao with environmental educator Ms. Meach Sophea as she leads the more than 300 community members from Takeo Province, in partnership with Daughters of Charity, on their first visit ever to the Center. Sophea and the KE team conducted this trip just as they do [...]

September 23, 2016|Categories: In the World, Phnom Tamao|Tags: , , , , |

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 [...]

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