10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2011

Cambodia’s “Vulture Restaurants&# are helping to increase the numbers of three imperiled species of vulture. Populations are trending upward and there is new hope for the carrion eaters still dealing with the ravages of diclofenac, a drug used to treat livestock that vultures then consume, causing their death.

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Cambodia Livestock Species 166

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 24, 2014

Irrawaddi Dolphin photographed in Cambodia (Dan Koehl/Wikimedia Commons). * And now, the big picture: the Sundarbans is not only a Ramsar wetland, but a UNESCO World Heritage Site, too. Bangladesh is doing all it can. The question in my mind is, what will the World do about the heritage of the entire mankind?

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Bangladesh Dolphins Cambodia Cooking 217

10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2024

Its range as indicated in the HBW is extremely small – just a few spots in Southern Vietnam and a little bit of Cambodia – and it is listed as Near Threatened. It was only discovered in 1927, and until 1991, it was unclear whether it still existed ( source ).

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Vietnam Birds Woodpeckers Bangladesh 246

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2014

It inhabits rather dry areas within a region notorious for being one of the rainiest parts of the world, and is thus patchily distributed from Burma through Laos, Cambodia, parts of Thailand and south China, all the way to Vietnam. The Brown Prinia is an Asian species with a very peculiar range.

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Laos Burma Cambodia Indonesia 172

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

It’s also endangered, with populations in India and Cambodia numbering barely around the 1,000 mark. Image by ChanduBandi/Wikimedia Commons. The Greater Adjutant Stork is large, striking, and revered in Hindu mythology. But it’s getting a helping hand from dozens of women in three Indian villages.

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Cambodia India 2016 Groups 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2024

If you are more into virology than ornithology, you might be better off following a different blog – or you could check out this paper : “Detection of a novel astrovirus from a black-naped monarch ( Hypothymis azurea) in Cambodia” The post Birding Tan Phu Forest, Vietnam (Part 2) appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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Vietnam Fowl Birds Iran 243

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 3, 2017

The Grey-headed Lapwing- Vanellus cinereus breeds in north-east China and Japan between April and June and then migrate to spend the winter in northern Southeast Asia from northeastern India to Cambodia and southern Japan.

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Australia 2006 Japan Cambodia 108

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

In 1974 we shipped four times as much food to Cambodia and South Vietnam as to starving Bangladesh and Swahelian Africa. The government’s policy has been (and it is likely that it will continue to be) to sell grain to those countries that are able to pay and to those countries in whom we perceive our national security interest.

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Vegetarian Morals Meat Cattle 40

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2019

A holiday in Cambodia? Prior to this Lynx edition – the first ever bird guide devoted specifically to Cambodia, the choice was Robson’s “Birds of South-East Asia” (the updated second, 2014 edition of the 2001 classic). 600 distribution maps, the “Birds of Cambodia” covers 629 species recorded in the country to date.

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Cambodia Birds 2001 Asia 187