Cambodia News, (Preah Vihear): According to the report from officials, on the afternoon of February 19, 2021, the park rangers at the 91st Mobile Headquarters patrolled the Otam Ek spot and found a dead banteng in a hunter's trap.


The rare species was found dead by park officials in a forest in Sen Rong Roeung Bei village, Moratok commune, Choam Ksan district, Preah Vihear province.It weighed about 1 ton, was trapped in its right leg and had been dead for about 24 hours. The rangers took the beast by truck to the O'Kak Environmental Office.

Aw damn.
WWF on Banteng in Cambodia.

Between 2009-2011 in dry seasons, the research team of WWF-Cambodia conducted the first vigorous surveys on population abundance of large mammals which includes wild cattle, deer, and wild pig in the Eastern Plain Landscape (EPL) of Cambodia covering an area of approximately 6,000km2.

Banteng Population in Cambodia: The Established Baseline DensityBanteng Population in Cambodia: The Established Baseline Density2011FACTSHEET© FA / WWF-Cambodia
Banteng (bos javanicus) is a species of wild cattle that historically inhabited deciduous and semi-evergreen forests from Northeast India and Southern Yunnan through mainland Southeast Asia and Peninsular Malaysia to Borneo and Java. Since 1996, banteng has been listed by IUCN as globally endangered on the basis of an inferred decline over the last 30 years of more than 50%.

Banteng is most likely the ancestor of Southeast Asia’s domestic cattle and it is considered to be one of the most beautiful and graceful of all wild cattle species. In Cambodia, banteng populations have decreased dramatically since the late 1960s. Poaching to sell the meat and horns as trophies constitutes a major threat to remnant populations even though banteng is legally protected.

The Result
The research team estimates the population of banteng in the EPL between 2,700-5,700 individuals with the accurate confidence of 95%. This is the world’s largest population of banteng given the estimated global population is approximately 5,900-11,000, with estimates of 100-200 individuals in a number of protected areas in Thailand and Java.
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