Camera-traps capture wild elephant herds in Mondolkiri

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Camera-traps capture wild elephant herds in Mondolkiri

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Researchers have released new photos offering a rare glimpse of endangered elephant herds seen traveling with calves through the Tonle Srepok Wildlife Sanctuary in Mondulkiri province earlier this month.

The photos are part of a conservation supervisory project undertaken by Winrock International and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in partnership with USAID Supporting Forests and Biodiversity (USAID SFB).

Over a period of six months, 90 high resolution “camera traps” were set at 54 different watering holes throughout the approximately 400,000 hectare sanctuary, formerly known as Mondulkiri Protected Forest, located on the province’s eastern plains. A biodiversity monitoring team collected 144,000 photographs, identifying 28 species – several of them endangered or critically-endangered – including elephants, Bantengs and the country’s imperiled national bird, the Giant Ibis.

Chhith Sam Ath, country director of WWF-Cambodia, said the threat of extinction facing the country’s elephant population is imminent...
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Great to see that there are still wild elephants here.
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I've seen maps where they show the location of the last wild elephant heard in Cambodia. Very few left, but enough to count. A few in Koh Kong, the rest are in Mondulkiri and Rattanakiri. Given that this is making the news, it might have been a while since they last saw some. I would have assumed camera sightings happened often. The way the eastern provinces are developing, I can't imagine them surviving more than another 5 years.
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There is rarely good news, but here is. :)
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More good news for wildlife in Cambodia last week: Zero-poaching of wild elephants in the Cardamoms for the past decade.
To celebrate World Elephant Day today, the conservation group Wildlife Alliance (WA) celebrated its achievement of zero poaching of the Cardamom Rainforest’s Asian elephant population in the last decade, according to a press release on Wednesday.

The press release noted that the rainforest was a poaching hotspot in the early 2000s, with 37 wild Asian elephants being poached from 2000 to 2006.

Beginning in 2002, WA began cooperating with the government to enforce the law and patrol the forest. As a result, since 2006, more than 140,000 traps were removed and 300 offenders were sent to court.

Suwanna Gauntlett, chief executive officer of WA, is proud of her organization’s success in reducing elephant poaching to zero in the last decade.

“Achieving zero elephant poaching for more than a decadein the Cardamoms is a fantastic achievement and demonstrates that investing in law enforcement is the best way to achieve conservation results,” Ms. Gauntlett said in a press release.

“However, to maintain this success more forest rangers need to be deployed on the ground and laws prohibiting hunting of protected species, including with snares, need to be strengthened,” added Ms. Gauntlett.

The Cardamom forest covers more than two million hectares of tropical rainforest in southwest Cambodia. The newly created 410,000-hectare Southern Cardamom National Park gives more space for wild elephants...
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28419/ ... -poaching/
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Dangers are everywhere for elephants. Eleven elephants were filmed stuck in a mud-hole in Mondulkiri recently:

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Elephants rescued from mud in Cambodia
25 Mar 2017 at 18:43
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PHNOM PENH: Eleven endangered wild elephants in Cambodia were rescued on Saturday, four days after getting stuck in mud in an old bomb crater.

The elephants were rescued in northeastern Mondulkiri province, home to about 250 wild elephants, said Wildlife Alliance official Botumroat Lebun.

The chief of the provincial environment department, Keo Sopheak, who headed the rescue team, said the elephants were sent back to the jungle where they normally live.

He said the animals apparently got stuck in the mud when they went to drink water at a three-meter-deep hole that was left over from US bombing during the Vietnam War.

He said that if local villagers had not reported the incident, the elephants would have died from thirst and starvation.
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Mondulkiri Province, Cambodia News: A report says that from April 20 until the morning of April 23 a herd of wild elephants appeared in the vicinity of the Keo Seima district and at the point of the pond in Srae Preah District Forestry Administration, only about 300 meters from National Road 76, and close to Ou Am Village, Sreang Keo Seima district.
The elephants came close to the village in search of water because of the dry season, and are not aggressive to humans if they are not provoked.
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This link gives a bit of a glimpse on general situation of elephants in cambodia.

I am trying to find current and reliable info on population status in different parts of the country but can find nothing recent.
I will post anything I find that is up to date and gives a clearer picture on numbers and locations.

https://elephantconservation.org/buildi ... -cambodia/
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