Biodiversity

Since the beginning of this year’s breeding season, 10 nests of Giant Ibis have been discovered in Lomphat Wildlife Sanctuary, pointed out BirdLife International Cambodia Programme on its official Facebook page today.​ ...

Remains of a male banteng were found after it had been trapped. It is the sixth banteng to have died since Mum Pram Bei was declared a community forest in Kampong Speu province. ...

The Royal Government has called for participation in the protection and conservation of wild elephants in Cambodia after data from automatic cameras deployed in protected areas found that Asian elephants – and baby elephants – were living in herds in Cambodia’s protected areas. ...

An ocean of exciting blue investment opportunities is just waiting to be uncovered along the Kingdom’s costal areas, a brief study conducted by the Ministry of Tourism’s General Department of Tourism Industry indicated.​ ...

Cambodian Mine Action Center (CMAC) director-general Heng Ratana told Khmer Times yesterday that three sniffer dogs were successfully trained to detect the Covid-19 virus. ...

Residents in Koh Kong province spotted dead fish washing up on the beach, causing a foul odor that has  raised  concerns among the people. ...

Rangers released 26 pythons into a nature reserve at the Tonle Sap Lake on Wednesday. ...

There are no longer any wild tigers in Cambodia due to indiscriminate hunting, loss of habitat and the use of snares, according to the Environment Ministry yesterday on World Tiger Day. ...

Brown and white-rumped vultures have returned to nests in Srepok Wildlife Sanctuary in Mondulkiri province after an absence of more than five years due to poisoning from human activity, a joint statement from the Ministry of Environment and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) said. ...

A clouded leopard which was snared in Kampot province has died due to its injuries. Last week, the clouded leopard was removed from a snare in Teuk Chhou district and later taken in by local police. ...

Motion-sensetive camera traps deployed across Cambodia’s protected areas have captured an encouraging number of greater hog badgers as of late, according to Ministry of Environment spokesman Neth Pheaktra.​ ...

Passengers using the Grab ride-hailing app are offered the option to travel carbon neutral, said a press release of Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) issued this afternoon, adding that a voluntary contribution allows passengers’ rides to be offset via carbon credits from the Keo Seima Wildlife ...

The population of the greater adjutant stork is continuously increasing in Cambodia despite global climatic changes, habitat destruction, wetland pollution, and other environmental factors. ...

An emergency wildlife rescue team raided a market in Kratie. The team found nearly 14 kilograms of wild meat. The illegal meat found included 3.7 kilograms of wild boar meat and 10.2 kilograms of wild oxen meat. ...

Cambodia is home to 849 species of moth, pointed out the Angkor Centre for Conservation of Biodiversity (ACCB) in a Facebook post today on the occasion of the National Moth Week which started on July 17.​ ...

Birdlife Cambodia has expressed concern over the sarus crane population following destruction of nests by wild pigs. ...

A herd of gaurs with calves was spotted by an infrared-triggered camera trap at one of the Kingdom’s many wildlife sanctuaries, raising hopes among local and international biodiversity conservationists that the species can be saved from extinction, according to the Ministry of Environment on July ...

The Wildlife Alliance Cambodia (WAC) has expressed concern that if poachers continue to hunt for Asian Leaf Turtle and Asian soft-shelled turtles, then these critically endangered species will become extinct.​ ...

Cambodia Vulture Working Group (CVWG) yesterday released census results conducted nationwide showing 121 vultures were recorded on June 20 at four vulture “canteens”. ...

Officials from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries have distributed and planted nearly 50,000 rosewood saplings across seven communes in Preah Vihear province’s Choam Ksan district to restore and protect two of the endangered species – Dalbergia cochinchinensis and Dalbergia oliveri. ...

A senior environment official called on holidaymakers to Cambodia’s pristine tropical forest tourist destinations to avoid plucking, collecting or breaking vulnerable plant species – especially the exotic carnivorous pitcher plants of the Nepenthes genus – to conserve the beauty and scenic value of nature, and ...

Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS Cambodia) and Preah Vihear provincial authorities launched a vaccination campaign to protect around 600 cows and buffaloes from being infected with Haemorrhagic Septicemia, a highly fatal bacterial disease affecting the respiratory system, in four villages in Kulen and Chheb districts.​ ...

Researchers from the Ministry of Environment have detected the Southern Serow (Capricornis sumatraensis) in protected areas by capturing it image on automatic cameras. The animal is a rare species and is listed on the IUCN Red List as globally endangered. ...

Bird life International Cambodia has reported that eggs in 85 per cent of Asian openbill stork nests in the Boeung Prek Lapouv protected area have successfully hatched in the mating season this year, while the total number of nests in the area was the most ...