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The aim of this fundraiser is to provide economic relief to the Wild Koh Kong Project, an indigenous-owned, environmental non-profit based in the Cardamom Mountains of Cambodia. Wild KK Project's mission is to fight against social and environmental atrocities committed by the Cambodian Government using ecotourism revenue to build resiliency in indigenous communities. They have lost 100% of the income they generated from ecotourism due to the COVID-19 pandemic and urgently need donations to continue with their mission.

Background

We are over a year into the COVID-19 pandemic and nearly every corner of the planet has felt its impacts. For the indigenous Chong people of Cambodia's Areng Valley the pandemic is just the newest in a long list of challenges threatening to destroy their home and way of life. Just 8 years ago the villages of Areng rallied together to start Cambodia's first grassroots environmental movement to protest the contruction of a Chinese backed hydroelectric dam. The consequences of the dam would have been horrendous, displacing 2,000 people from their ancestral home and flooding nearly half a million acres of ultra-biodiverse jungle home to endangered species such as Siamese Crocodiles and Great Hornbills.

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About 200-300 Endangered Siamese Crocodile Found in Cambodia
AKP Phnom Penh, January 20, 2021 --

Between 200 and 300 endangered Siamese crocodiles (Crocodylus siamensis) listed as a globally endangered species on the IUCN Red List, are inhabiting Cambodia.

The Ministry of Environment shared the good news recently, adding that traces of crocs were found at Sre Pok and Phnom Prech river in Mondulkiri province, and some of the endangered species are in the Cardamom Mountains, Koh Kong province.

According to Ms. Milou Groenenberg, Biodiversity Research and Monitoring Manager at the World Wild Fund (WWF), endangered Siamese crocodiles are very shy, so they are rarely seen with the naked eye.

In order to know if it really exists in Cambodia, she continued, it is necessary to monitor the footprints, its burrows, or the feces of this species.

The Sre Pok river in Mondulkiri province is a good place for the croc’s habitat because no one has yet come to disturb it, and so far the risks they are facing elsewhere include poaching, illegal fishing, and fishing with electric wires, etc.

H.E. Neth Pheaktra, Secretary of State at the Ministry of Environment, shared that the Ministry of Environment has been working with development partners to save endangered animals, including the Siamese crocodile.

By Phal Sophanith
AKP