Critter News

AUGUST 19, 2011

It's happening at the Siem Reap Crocodile Farm in Cambodia. Disgusting.

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Cambodia Farming Animal Chickens 100

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JUNE 26, 2013

**And if that’s not enough good news for you, this just in: a brand-new bird species (the Cambodian Tailorbird , one of only two endemics in the country) has been discovered living right in Cambodia’s capitol city of Phnom Penh !

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Cambodia Slaughter Slaughtered Cyprus 143

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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 184

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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Burma Laos Cambodia Indonesia 160

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JANUARY 3, 2017

Greater Adjutants are huge birds that were once widespread across much of Southeast Asia; today there are two small breeding populations in India and Cambodia. I think this might be my best bird of 2016. I saw this Greater Adjutant in Assam, India, where they scavenge in the Guwahati city dump. There were several there, plus Lesser Adjutants.

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2016 India Ducks Costa Rica 109

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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 212

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

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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 101

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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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