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 74

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 Birds India Animal 40

10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2018

401-600 sp: Honduras, Guatemala, Guyana, Suriname and French Guyana, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay; the Sahel countries (Africa), Namibia and Botswana; Central Asian countries and Cambodia. Shown as a list, it looks like this: Less than 200 bird species: Antarctica; oceanic islands. 801-1000 sp. – 1201-1400 sp: Venezuela; China.

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Birds Costa Rica Equatorial Guinea Guyana 95

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2019

This guide describes the 125 best birding sites for both common and rare species, covering Myanmar, Thailand, Laos (officially Lao PDR), Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia, the Philippines and Timor Leste. Whatever was omitted or incorrect in the first is fixed in the second.

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Birds Asia Species Laos 94

10,000 Birds

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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Birds Slaughter Slaughtered Species 74

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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Dolphins Bangladesh Fish Species 97

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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Birds Species Burma Indonesia 81

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 Birds Ducks Pelicans 53

10,000 Birds

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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Birds 2016 Ducks Owls 66

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 Cattle Meat 40