Wildlife of Cambodia

Wildlife in Cambodia includes dholes, elephants, deer (sambar, Eld's deer, hog deer and muntjac), wild oxen (banteng and gaur), panthers, bears, and tigers. Cormorants, cranes, ibises, parrots, green peafowl, pheasants, and wild ducks are also found, and species of venomous snakes and constrictors are numerous. Deforestation, mining activities, and unregulated hunting, have diminished the country's wildlife diversity rapidly.

Cambodia also has many endangered species, including Asian elephant, Siamese crocodile, wild water buffalo, and the Germain's silver langur.

Much work is being done in this area to help conserve and protect Cambodia's unique wildlife. Wildlife

Some animals native to Cambodia:

• 
  Pileated gibbon.
  Cambodia has the largest population in the world of this endangered ape.
• 
  Gaur
• 
  Banteng
• 
  Binturong (bearcat)
• 
  King cobra.
  Cambodia has many different kinds of snakes.
• 
  Mangrove snake
• 
  Asian water monitor
• 
  Tokay gecko, one of several gecko species
• 
  Leatherback sea turtle

Flora

See also: List of trees of Cambodia

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Cambodia supports more than 3000 identified plant species, many of which are endemic to unique local ecosystems, such as the Tonlé Sap floodplain, forests of the Cardamom and Dâmrei Mountains, and elevated plains.^[9]

• Cambodia's national flower is the
  Mitrella mesnyi
  .
• The
  Sisaket Province
  .

Several plant species in Cambodia are rare and/or endangered:^[10]

• Nepenthes bokorensis, one of two rare pitcher plants endemic to Cambodia. Found growing in the Dâmrei Mountains.
• critically endangered
  .
• Cinnamomum cambodianum a non-scented species of cinnamon tree endemic to Cambodian forests, primarily the Cardamom and Dâmrei Mountains. Perhaps also present in Thailand at the Cambodia-Thailand border region in the northeast. Endangered by illegal logging.

Threat

Sand mining in waterways, overfishing, illicit fishing methods, and the illegal wildlife trafficking are the three main threats to biodiversity in Cambodia.^[11] In the Cardamom Mountain region, Poaching through Snaring is another major factor in the decline in the population of Pileated Gibbons, Dhole, Serow, Spotted Linsang & many more.^[12]

See also

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• List of protected areas of Cambodia
• Wildlife of Ratanakiri
• Cardamom Mountains

notes and references

1. ^ ^{a b c d} "Cambodia Clearing House Mechanism Species Database". Retrieved 2018-08-01.
2. ^ Reptile Database, accessed 3 March 2013
3. ^ Griffin, Olly. 2019. The Biodiversity of Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary ជីវចម្រុះនៅក្នុងដែនជម្រក សត្វព្រៃកែវសីមា. WCS Cambodia, Phnom Penh.
4. ^ ^{a b} REPORT 4 Fauna and flora diversity studies in Botum Sakor National Park, Cambodia April 2005 – September 2009 Frontier Cambodia, January 2010. Society for Environmental Exploration 2010.
5. ^ "Cambodia's Islands - Species". Cambodia islands – Island Species Cambodia. Retrieved December 20, 2017.
6. ^ Insectes Sociaux: Predation on large millipedes and self-assembling chains in Leptogenys ants from Cambodia
7. ^ Bug Squad: An Amazing Ant/Millipede Video
8. ^ Khmer Times: Cambodia’s Blue Ants Use Teamwork to Pull Prey
9. ISBN 978-967-5221-21-7
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10. ^ Note: Many species are now extinct or near extinct in neighbouring countries and Cambodia happens to hold some of the last refuges.
11. ^ "Cambodia Wildlife and Biodiversity | WorkingAbroad". Working Abroad. Retrieved 2023-09-26.
12. ^ "Crisis in Cambodia – New threat to the glorious biodiversity of the Cardamom Mountains". Fauna & Flora.

External links

• An online photographic database of Cambodian Marine Species