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“Any animal abuser will be seriously punished by law in Cambodia.” YouTube, Facebook and other sites remove the videos with graphic content, but scores of other clips of cute monkeys jumping ...
The wildlife of Cambodia is very diverse with at least 162 mammal species, [1] 600 bird species, [1] 176 reptile species (including 89 subspecies), [2] 900 freshwater fish species, [1] 670 invertebrate species, and more than 3000 plant species. [1]
Today wildlife dishes are no longer available at 90% of restaurants in the nation’s capital. [2] Today the illegal wildlife trade is predominantly run by the same dangerous groups behind drug and weapons trafficking. [3] When illegal traders are caught by the Wildlife Rapid Rescue Team (WRRT), their contraband and equipment are confiscated.
Caves & forest; only known from one location in Cambodia DD Unknown: Family Miniopteridae: Small bent-winged bat: Miniopterus pusillus Dobson, 1876: Caves & forest LC Unknown: Family Emballonuridae: Naked-rumped pouched bat: Saccolaimus saccolaimus Temminck, 1838: Caves, forest, & savanna LC: Long-winged tomb bat: Taphozous longimanus Hardwicke ...
Demand from middlemen and specialized animal trade mafias [19] [30] has increased the profitability of slow loris hunting and driven many hunters to catch any they spot by climbing or shaking trees. [18] [30] [35] In the Mondulkiri Province in Cambodia, slow lorises are shaken out of trees and then bludgeoned to death with a stick. [30]
72 Dangerous Animals: Asia is a 2018 Australian nature documentary exploring Asia's most deadly animals, starring Bob Brisbane, Bryan Grieg Fry and Romulus Whitaker [1]
The kouprey is the national animal of Cambodia, being designated as such by Norodom Sihanouk in 1960, [18] its name is also the nickname of the country's national football team. Several statues depicting and dedicated to the kouprey have been established across Cambodia, including in the country's capital city, Phnom Penh. [15]
In 1959, Yim Dith, secretary of state for Agriculture under the Sangkum government led by Prince Sihanouk reminded that hunting was illegal in Cambodia while Tim Dong, general delegate for Tourism declared on November 13, 1959, through the Agence Kampuchea Press that he was relying on hunting safaris to develop tourism to Cambodi, revealing tensions in leadership around the issue of hunting.