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Wildlife in Cambodia includes dholes, elephants, deer (sambar, Eld's deer, hog deer and muntjac), wild oxen (banteng and gaur), panthers, bears, and tigers. Cormorants, cranes, ibises, parrots, green peafowl, pheasants, and wild ducks are also found, and species of venomous snakes and constrictors are numerous.
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 ...
The Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Centre (PTWRC; French: Parc zoologique de Phnom Tamao) is a wildlife centre located roughly 25 miles (40 km) by road south of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The centre was established in 1995 and with an area of over 6,000 acres of protected regenerating forest , this is the largest zoo in Cambodia. [ 1 ]
Phnom Aural Wildlife Sanctuary is a protected area in central Cambodia, covering 2,544.85 km 2 (982.57 sq mi). It was established in 1993. [2] [1] It is named after Phnom Aural, the country's tallest peak at 1,810 m (5,940 ft). The Aural mountains are part of the much larger Cardamom Mountains.
Kulen Promtep Wildlife Sanctuary is one of the largest protected areas in Cambodia and was set aside to protect the critically endangered, possibly extinct Kouprey. It was created by royal decree in 1993. [2] [3] Kulen Promtep Wildlife Sanctuary is one of the last places on the planet where the giant ibis, a critically endangered species, can ...
Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary (KSWS) lies between 60 and 750 metres (200 and 2,460 ft) above sea level, and is situated in the southeast corner of Cambodia along the border with Vietnam. The northwest section of KSWS forms part of Cambodia's Eastern Plains, while the montane southeast section constitutes the south-western edge of the Annamite ...
Cambodia's once-significant undeveloped forest areas were abundant with wildlife. But after the communist Khmer Rouge’s brutal rule in the 1970s left society and the economy devastated, poor ...
Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary is a wildlife sanctuary in western Cambodia, bordering Thailand. The sanctuary was established in 1993 [ 2 ] and covers 3,307.56 km 2 (1,277.06 sq mi). [ 1 ] It is also designated as an Important Bird Area (IBA).