Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Center animals play with their new toys
It is very important to us to make sure that the animals we care for are entertained, engaged, and happy, and making toys for them is a big job! The keepers are very interested in creating enrichment for the animals they care for, and it is always fun to watch the animals play with their new toys. Who doesn't love getting [...]
Wildlife Release Station camera trap
This is a camera trap photo of a leopard cat that was taken in the forest in the Cardamom mountains. We have released many leopard cats here and are so happy to say that they are doing very well! While they are fairly elusive, if you stay at our Wildlife Release Station there is a chance you might be able to see [...]
Angkor Wat Gibbon Family update
Happy Update on the Angkor Wat Gibbon Family! As you may know Wildlife Alliance has secured a contract to repopulate pileated gibbons in the Siem Reap area. We have released two families to date, with a third family in an acclimation enclosure onsite getting used to the sites and sounds before their release. We are so very happy to report that [...]
Cambodian Prime Minister Endorses Tiger Reintroduction Plans
The last record of tiger from Cambodia was in November 2007 from Srepok Wildlife Sanctuary, Mondulkiri. The extirpation of tiger from Cambodia was largely due to poaching, of tigers and tiger prey, for the illegal wildlife trade. Acknowledging the species’ functional extinction from Cambodia tiger reintroduction was identified as a critical action in the Cambodia Tiger Action Plan (CTAP). This was [...]
Cambodia Busts Major Ivory Smuggling From Mozambique to China
Our hearts go out to the 300 elephants that were killed for greed and whose tusks were smuggled from Mozambique to Cambodia. Wildlife Alliance vows to seek justice for these slaughtered elephants. We will do everything we can to get the Vietnamese national arrested and put in jail. These nobles were massacred after massive smuggling to China. Cambodia was just a transit [...]
Celebrating Successes on World Elephant Day
Last weekend, on August 12th, 2017, we celebrated World Elephant Day! While this is a day to raise awareness of the devastating threats this iconic species is facing, we also celebrated our conservation successes. Although elephants once roamed across most of Asia, deforestation has reduced their range to just 15% of their former habitat. The remaining forest is highly fragmented, and [...]
It is very important to us to make sure that the animals we care for are entertained, engaged, and happy, and […]
This is a camera trap photo of a leopard cat that was taken in the forest in the Cardamom mountains. We […]
Happy Update on the Angkor Wat Gibbon Family! As you may know Wildlife Alliance has […]
The last record of tiger from Cambodia was in November 2007 from Srepok Wildlife Sanctuary, Mondulkiri. The extirpation of tiger from […]
Our hearts go out to the 300 elephants that were killed for greed and whose […]
Last weekend, on August 12th, 2017, we celebrated World Elephant Day! While this is a day to raise awareness of the […]