Source: Xinhua| 2017-08-02 18:49:57|Editor: Song Lifang
PHNOM PENH, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- A conservationist group has
found 19 nests of globally endangered giant ibis during the current breeding
season in the Northern Plains of Cambodia in Preah Vihear province, a Wildlife
Conservation Society (WCS) statement said on Wednesday.
Community members and conservationists are working together
under the Bird Nest Protection Program to protect these nests from human
disturbances and other threats, the statement said.
Giant ibis (Thaumatibis gigantea), Cambodia's national bird,
is listed as critically endangered on the International Union for Conservation
of Nature (IUCN) Red List and exists only in Cambodia and Laos, it said, adding
that about 99 percent of the global population, estimated to contain 194 mature
individuals, lives in Cambodia.
"As of July this year, our research team has recorded 19
nests of the giant ibis; 14 located in Chhep Wildlife Sanctuary and five in the
Kulen Promtep Wildlife Sanctuary," said Thong Sokha, wildlife research and
monitoring team leader for Environment Ministry and WCS in Chhep Wildlife
Sanctuary.
He said the species' breeding period is between June and
September, and the team is now working closely with local communities to
monitor those recorded nests and search for new ones in both sanctuaries.
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