The Sunda pangolin is an amazing animal - a scaly mammal that eats ants and termites, hides in dense forest, and rolls into a tiny ball when scared.
Wildlife Alliance’s Care for Rescued Wildlife program at Phnom Tamao is home to Pursat, a rescued hairy-nosed otter. Pursat is probably the only one of his species cared for by humans anywhere on Earth.
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Friday, February 25, 2011 at 4:22AM Wildlife Alliance was pleased to host a key staffer to the US Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee this week as he toured sites in Cambodia to review the impact development projects were having on the environment.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010 at 8:11AM The struggle to prevent a destructive mine from opening in an important Cambodian rain forest habitat continued this week with Wildlife Alliance and the mining company trading views in front of a government investigative committee. The Tuesday/Wednesday meeting with the committee paves the way for a final decision on the massive mine to be made next week.
Thursday, December 9, 2010 at 6:43AM After two years of lobbying by Wildlife Alliance, the government of Cambodia’s Koh Kong province has made a tremendous step this week toward creating a plan that will hopefully preserve vast tracts of rainforest currently subject to rampant destruction in part because nobody has clearly marked the boundaries of protected areas. A newly created committee is now set to begin work create land-use plans to deal with forest encroachment in three key areas of the province.
Saturday, November 20, 2010 at 1:31AM The Cambodian holiday of Water Festival came a few days early this year to the village of Chi Phat, home to Wildlife Alliance’s Community-based Ecotourism project, bringing with it the usual dance parties and boat races. But this year also saw the presence of a high-level government delegation that may very well determine the fate of not just Chi Phat but a sizeable portion of Cambodia’s largest rainforest.
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