Evidences of elephant drops found in northeastern Cambodia.By Khmerization
Source: KEN
According to evidences of elephant's drops (poos) found in Cambodia's northeastern forest reserves, there could be more elephants than the official counts of 175 still surviving in the Cambodian wild, reports Khmer Express News.
Mr. Tuy Siriwattana, head of Cambodia's Wildlife Animal Conservation, said conservation officials had recently found between 50 t0 60 elephant drops in the northeastern parts of Cambodia. He said the elephant numbers in Cambodia might be much higher than initially estimated because Cambodia has many protected natural animal sanctuaries. "The 175 elephants found are assumed to have inhabited in the 1/3 of 2 million hectares of the wildlife sanctuaries we have surveyed in the protected forest reserves in the Cardamon Mountains Ranges", he said.
He said these 1/3 of the 2 million hectares surveyed are done in the Koh Kong, Sihanoukville, Kampong Speu, Pursat and Battambang provinces. Mr. Tuy Siriwattana said, however, that the areas most populated by elephants are in Chy Phat, Areng, Veal Ta Phu and Botum Sakor areas.
He said many areas not yet surveyed, but have been populated by lage elephant numbers in the past, are in Prey Long in Kratie province stretching to Tonle Ropov near Laotian borders in Preah Vihear province. The Cambodian elephants are of the Asian stock, he said.
Source: KEN
According to evidences of elephant's drops (poos) found in Cambodia's northeastern forest reserves, there could be more elephants than the official counts of 175 still surviving in the Cambodian wild, reports Khmer Express News.
Mr. Tuy Siriwattana, head of Cambodia's Wildlife Animal Conservation, said conservation officials had recently found between 50 t0 60 elephant drops in the northeastern parts of Cambodia. He said the elephant numbers in Cambodia might be much higher than initially estimated because Cambodia has many protected natural animal sanctuaries. "The 175 elephants found are assumed to have inhabited in the 1/3 of 2 million hectares of the wildlife sanctuaries we have surveyed in the protected forest reserves in the Cardamon Mountains Ranges", he said.
He said these 1/3 of the 2 million hectares surveyed are done in the Koh Kong, Sihanoukville, Kampong Speu, Pursat and Battambang provinces. Mr. Tuy Siriwattana said, however, that the areas most populated by elephants are in Chy Phat, Areng, Veal Ta Phu and Botum Sakor areas.
He said many areas not yet surveyed, but have been populated by lage elephant numbers in the past, are in Prey Long in Kratie province stretching to Tonle Ropov near Laotian borders in Preah Vihear province. The Cambodian elephants are of the Asian stock, he said.
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