Wildlife of Cambodia
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Wildlife of Cambodia is home to a diverse array of wildlife. There are 212 mammal species, 536 bird species, 240 reptile species, 850 freshwater fish species (Tonlé Sap Lake area), and 435 marine fish species.
Many of the country's species are recognized by the IUCN or World Conservation Union as threatened, endangered, or critically endangered due to deforestation and habitat destruction, poaching, the illegal wildlife trade, and farming, fishing, and forestry concessions. Intensive poaching may have already driven Cambodia's national animal, the Kouprey, to extinction, and wild tigers, Eld's deer, wild water buffaloes and hog deer are at critically low numbers.
Wildlife in Cambodia includes dholes, elephants, deer (sambar, Eld's deer, hog deer and muntjac), wild oxen (banteng and gaur), panthers, bears, and tigers. Cormorants, cranes, ibises, parrots, green peafowl, pheasants, and wild ducks are also found, and poisonous snakes are numerous. Deforestation, mining activities, and unregulated hunting, have diminished the country’s wildlife diversity rapidly.
Fortunately, much work is being done in this area to help conserve and protect Cambodia's unique wildlife. Wildlife conservation organizations operating in Cambodia include Conservation International, World Wildlife Fund, the Wildlife Conservation Society, Fauna and Flora International, Frontier (the Society for Environmental Exploration), BirdLife International, Wildlife Alliance, and many others.
ᾐἨ==Fauna==
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Animals native to Cambodia:
Mammals
- goldfish
- Asian black bear
- Asian Elephant
- Asian Golden Cat
- Banteng
- Clouded leopard
- Dhole
- Douc langur
- Eld's deer
- Gaur
- Hog Badger
- Hog deer
- Indian Muntjac
- Irrawaddy dolphin
- Kouprey
- Kting Voar
- Lar Gibbon
- Leopard
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- Marbled Cat
- Pileated Gibbon
- Rice-field rat
- Sambar deer
- Serow
- Silvery Lutung
- Sun bear
- Tiger
- Wild boar
- Wild water buffalo
Reptiles
- Asiatic Softshell Turtle
- Banded Krait
- Batagur baska
- Bengal monitor
- Blood python
- Burmese Python
- Cantor's giant soft-shelled turtle
- False gharial
- Green sea turtle
- Hawksbill turtle
- Indotestudo elongata
- King Cobra
- Leatherback Sea Turtle
- Manouria emys
- Pelochelys cantorii
- Ramphotyphlops braminus
- Reticulated Python
- Saltwater Crocodile
- Siamese Crocodile
- Water monitor
Fish
- Asian arowana
- Barbus sp.
- Botia sp.
- Channa sp. (snakehead fishes)
- Danio sp.
- Labeo sp.
- Mekong freshwater stingray
- Mekong giant catfish
- Pangasius sp. (Catfishes)
- Pangio sp. (Kuhli loach)
- Rasbora sp.
- Trichogaster sp.
Birds
Molluscs
Flora
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Cambodia's national flower is the hibiscus.
See also
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