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Sarus crane population up? Survey underway

4 January 2024
The Phnom Penh Post
Animals / Environment and natural resources / Forests and forestry
BirdLife International / IUCN Red List of Threatened Species / Sarus crane / Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)

Wildlife organisation officials have drawn attention to the presence of sarus cranes in six provinces of Cambodia. The population remains larger than that of Laos or Vietnam. ...

 Chea Sokny
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sarus-crane-population-up-survey-underway

Rare sarus cranes hatch in Keo Seima sanctuary

6 September 2023
The Phnom Penh Post
Animals / Environment and natural resources / National parks and wildlife sanctuaries
Sarus crane / Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)

In late August, a dedicated wildlife monitoring team from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS Cambodia) in Mondulkiri province made a remarkable discovery – locating another rare sarus crane nest, in which two newborn birds had been safely hatched. Sharing the encouraging news on September 4, WCS ...

 Orm Bunthoeurn
https://phnompenhpost.com/national/rare-sarus-cranes-hatch-keo-seima-sanctuary

Concern over declining numbers of sarus cranes

20 July 2021
Khmer Times
Biodiversity / Environment and natural resources
BirdLife / Sarus crane / Wild pig

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

 Mao Chanvireak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50897504/concern-over-declining-numbers-of-sarus-cranes/

Cambodian Sarus Crane’s number declining

By the morning of Jan. 18, 2021, a total of 59 sarus crane arrived Anlung Pring Protected Landscape in Kampong Trach, Kampot, according to BirdLife International Cambodia Programme. ...

 Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50804806/cambodian-sarus-cranes-number-declining/

Protecting a rare species

2 January 2018
Khmer Times
Biodiversity / Environmental and biodiversity protection
Sarus crane / Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)

In recent years, there has been a declining trend in the number of sarus cranes observed throughout Cambodia. The seasonally flooded grasslands of the Northern Plains, one of the few locations in Cambodia where the birds breed, are threatened by agricultural conversion to rice paddies. ...

 May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5099251/protecting-rare-species/

Crane makes itself at home

A growing number of red-headed Sarus cranes are reportedly flocking west from Vietnam to a protected sanctuary in Kampot province’s Kampong Trach district, and conservationists observing the trend aren’t sure why. The Tuoitrenews website reported on Saturday that unusually large numbers of the birds, which are classified as ...

 Amelia Woodside
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/crane-makes-itself-home

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