Cambodian wild elephant.By Khmerization
Source: CEN
A senior official from the Ministry of Agriculture claimed that Cambodia still has about 450 of the estimated 3000-50,000 wild elephants left in the world, reports Cambodian Express News.
Mr. Chan Sarun, Minister of Agriculture, said DNA tests and analyses conducted recently indicated that Cambodia still has between 450-500 elephants in the wild. He said there are two stocks of elephants in the world, the Asian and the African stocks. Of the estimated 3,000-50,000 elephants left in the world, the majority of them are in India, he said.
He said during the Angkorian period (800 A.D to 1431 A.D), when the mode of transport and wars and manpower were elephants, it was estimated that Cambodia had about 20,000 elephants in the wild. However, the Cambodian elephant population was feared to have been decimated by illegal hunting and during subsequent civil wars in the 1970s to 1980s and the destruction of elephant habitats due to illegal logging from the 1990s to the present time.
Last week, the Cambodian government has donated two elephants to the South Korean Zoo.
Source: CEN
A senior official from the Ministry of Agriculture claimed that Cambodia still has about 450 of the estimated 3000-50,000 wild elephants left in the world, reports Cambodian Express News.
Mr. Chan Sarun, Minister of Agriculture, said DNA tests and analyses conducted recently indicated that Cambodia still has between 450-500 elephants in the wild. He said there are two stocks of elephants in the world, the Asian and the African stocks. Of the estimated 3,000-50,000 elephants left in the world, the majority of them are in India, he said.
He said during the Angkorian period (800 A.D to 1431 A.D), when the mode of transport and wars and manpower were elephants, it was estimated that Cambodia had about 20,000 elephants in the wild. However, the Cambodian elephant population was feared to have been decimated by illegal hunting and during subsequent civil wars in the 1970s to 1980s and the destruction of elephant habitats due to illegal logging from the 1990s to the present time.
Last week, the Cambodian government has donated two elephants to the South Korean Zoo.
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