Endangered Species in Cambodia
Source: http://cambodia.panda.org/wwf_in_cambodia/endangered_species

Special thanks to: Samnang SAN
Student of Faculty of Forestry, Royal University of Agriculture

for providing Khmer names to some of the wildlife below.
Just 50 years ago, large herbivores like Banteng,
Asian Elephant, and Eld’s Deer as well as predators like Indochinese tiger and leopard were so abundant in the Dry Forests of North and
Northeast Cambodia that scientists compared this ecoregion to the savannas of East Africa. In the troubled decades that followed, however, habitat destruction and hunting greatly reduced animal numbers and diversity. Today, the largest intact dry forests in Indochina remain in north-eastern
Cambodia in an area known as the Eastern Plains
Landscape (EPL).
Cambodia large variety of habitats both on land and in water are home to a significant diversity of threatened wildlife species. Among mammals, wild cattle and deer species as well as predators like tiger and leopard still roam the remote forests of the Eastern Plains Landscape, while a small population of Irrawaddy Dolphin inhabits the
Cambodian section of the Mekong River. Birds are equally plentiful - especially Cambodia's populations of large waterbirds in both forests and wetlands stand out as globally significant. The
Mekong River is also home to several endangered and iconic fish and reptile species, and critically endangered Siamese crocodile have been observed in the
Eastern Plains' Srepok River.

Irrawaddy Dolphin : ផ្សោត
The Irrawaddy is a shy, small dolphin that is dark grey in color with a pale underside, a small rounded dorsal fin, and a bluntly rounded head. The Mekong Irrawaddy dolphin is the proud symbol of the Mekong River and its biodiversity. The Mekong River is one of the world’s most important remaining freshwater habitats