CEO Suwanna Gauntlett & Rhett Butler, Mongabay founder, Went Trekking
CEO Suwanna Gauntlett wrote: "I was very honored to receive the visit of Rhett Butler, Mongabay founder and director, who came to trek with me for two days in the jungle of the Southern Cardamoms. I took him to see our Wildlife Release Station, where he saw the wild animals currently being re-wilded by Wildlife Alliance after we saved them from [...]
Wildlife Alliance Launches Khmer App to Combat Widllife Trafficking
On July 14, Wildlife Alliance, together with Bangkok-based partner Freeland, launched the Khmer version of WildScan app. This was not only a fun but very important and useful information session for field staff and officers from Customs and Excise, Ministry of Environment, Forestry Administration, WWF, Conservation International, Wildlife Conservation Society, BirdLife International, and Wildlife Alliance. Funded by USAID’s ARREST program, WildScan [...]
Camera-traps capture Cambodia’s threatened mountain goat
These images and video show Chinese Serow Capricornis milneedwardsii a species of wild goat which occurs in hill forests across mainland South East Asia. IUCN listed as Near Threatened, largely as a result of hunting for food and medicine, Serow blood is used in traditional Cambodian medicine to treat a number of ailments. As a result, the species has been heavily [...]
Villager Entrusted Civet to Wildlife Alliance Ranger
On a patrol, ranger Rethy Sowath from Sre Ambel station rescued a civet from an elderly woman, who kept the common palm civet as a household pet. "I educated her about wildlife law," said Sowath. "Under the Cambodian law, it is illegal to have civets as pets." The woman explained that she cared for the civet since it was a cub. [...]
Baby Gibbon born at Angkor temple
Wildlife Alliance has been re-wilding the victims of the illegal wildlife trade since 2001. The second pair of endangered pileated gibbons that we released in the forests around Angkor Wat, gave birth this month - July 2016. The good news about the birth of the baby gibbon was published in the Rasmei Kampuchea, Phnom Penh Post and Cambodia Daily. [...]
World Day to Combat Desertification – June 17
Tomorrow, on June 17th, we celebrate World Day to Combat Desertification, a day for people worldwide to unite to counteract one of the greatest environmental issues we face. Although very prevalent, the meaning of desertification is widely unknown. Desertification does not refer to the spreading of deserts, but does refer to the persistent degradation of habitats by humans, including unsustainable farming, [...]
CEO Suwanna Gauntlett wrote: “I was very honored to receive the visit of Rhett Butler, Mongabay founder and director, who came […]
These images and video show Chinese Serow Capricornis milneedwardsii a species of wild goat which […]
Wildlife Alliance has been re-wilding the victims of the illegal wildlife trade since 2001. The second pair of endangered pileated […]
Tomorrow, on June 17th, we celebrate World Day to Combat Desertification, a day for people worldwide to unite to counteract one […]