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TV host Jeff Corwin goes upriver in the Cardamom mountains with the Cambodia Community Wildlife Ranger team |
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Recognition
for tiger protection: Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Sen awards CAT's
Hunter Weiler
Community Wildlife Ranger Program in Global Tiger
Forum News: CAT
Tiger Project gets high marks in Asian conservation project audit
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Cambodia is one of the world’s poorest countries, and is emerging from decades of isolation in the aftermath of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in the late 1970s. In 1997, CAT began working with Cambodia’s Wildlife Protection Office to identify skilled hunters around the country and access their knowledge of wildlife. Biological surveys are finding confirming that Cambodia holds some of Southeast Asia’s richest populations of rare species. But tigers are disappearing fast under pressure from the black market traditional medicine trade. The Cambodia Tiger Conservation Program has hired former tiger hunters as community wildlife rangers, who are paid to protect tigers rather than poach them, and carry the message of tiger conservation to the remote rural villages where they live. This year we are working to improve law enforcement and prosecution of professional poaching gangs by integrating local police into the program. |
