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WWF Cambodia office

WWF Cambodia Country Programme is part of the WWF Greater Mekong Programme, which works on environmental and conservation issues across Thailand, Cambodia, Lao PDR and Vietnam.

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WWF Cambodia Country Programme
House #54, Street 352,
Boeung Keng Kang I,
PO Box 2467, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

T:+855 23 218 034
F:+855 23 211 909
Cambodia is regionally and internationally important for the conservation of terrestrial and aquatic habitats and threatened species of wildlife. Tiger, Asian elephant, wild cattle, large waterbirds, and other rare species of plants and animals are part of Cambodia's natural heritage.

In Cambodia, WWF focuses on two priority ecoregions :

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Dry forest in Mondulkiri province, eastern Cambodia

Managing tourism for the benefit of nature

Pichreada district, Mondulkiri province November 19th – Attended by around 100 people from government authorities, communities, private sector and WWF, the today’s inauguration of the community homestay within the Mondulkiri Protected Forest is celebrated to promote wildlife ecotourism in the dry forests of North-eastern Cambodia. The aim being to co-finance the protected area and help communities protect their wildlife while developing sustainable livelihoods.

Posted on 18 November 2009 | 0 comments | Read more

Rattan association's first meeting

First rattan association of Cambodia, a step to sustainable rattan industry

Phnom Penh, Cambodia – Eleven rattan small and medium enterprise owners and other community rattan processors from Phnom Penh and provinces meet on September 28th to officially form Cambodia’s first rattan association. The agenda will focus on election of a management committee and discussion over conditions and roles of current and future memberships.

Posted on 01 October 2009 | 1 comments | Read more

Khorat big-mouthed frog (Limnonectes megastomias), found only in three isolated and remote locations in a protected area in Thailand. The frog's fangs protrude from its bottom jawbone and it is known to be an opportunistic eater, lying and waiting for prey in streams. The species is known to eat birds as feathers were found in its faeces. This species was one of the new species discovered in the Greater Mekong region of Southeast Asia during 2008.

Close Encounters: new species discoveries in the Greater Mekong

New species discovered in the Greater Mekong at risk of extinction due to climate change.

Posted on 16 September 2009 | 0 comments | Read more

Stuart Chapman (WWF) presenting WWF experiences in the Heart of Borneo during a regional brainstorming workshop on climate change in Bangkok, July, 2009.

Greater Mekong Climate Change Adaptation agreement: a world’s first in the making…

Asia’s first climate change adaptation agreement was the focus of a recent meeting held in Bangkok, convened on July 22 by WWF Greater Mekong Programme, the United Nations Environment Programme and the Swedish Environmental Secretariat for Asia.

Posted on 07 August 2009 | 1 comments | Read more

Illegal trade in Asian pangolin meat and scales has caused the scaly anteaters to disappear from large swathes of Cambodia, Viet Nam and Lao PDR.

Toothless laws encourage rising demand for pangolin

Rising demand for pangolins, mostly from mainland China, compounded by lax laws is wiping out the unique toothless anteaters from their native habitats in Southeast Asia, according to a group of leading pangolin experts.

Posted on 14 July 2009 | 8 comments | Read more

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WWF Conservation Projects in Cambodia

WWF Tiger Action Plan

Drawing upon 4 decades of tiger conservation work with partners around the globe, WWF has developed a new and far-reaching strategy for tiger conserva...

Modified: Sep 2009 - Started: Apr 2002

Irrawaddy dolphin (Orcaella brevirostris) in the Mekong river, Kratie province. Cambodia.

Saving the Mekong River’s dolphins

With a characteristically rounded head, no beak, and sporting a small triangular shaped dorsal fin with a rounded tip below the centre of the back, th...

Modified: Aug 2009 - Started: Jan 2005

Using Wildlife Ecotourism for Sustainable Resource Management in the Srepok Wilderness Area

This project will restore the once abundant populations of large mammals in the Srepok Wilderness Area, Northeast Cambodia. Wildlife will be restored ...

Modified: Aug 2009 - Started: Jul 2005

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