Updated: Jul 20, 2017 - 9:19 PM
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - Wildlife researchers in
Cambodia have found a breeding location for the masked finfoot, one of the
world's most endangered birds, raising hopes of its continuing survival.
The New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society said Thursday
its scientists, along with conservationists from Cambodia's Environment
Ministry and residents along the Memay river in the Kulen Promtep Wildlife
Sanctuary, discovered the only confirmed breeding location in Cambodia for the
very rare species.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature has placed
the bird on its red list of globally endangered species because its worldwide
population of less than 1,000 is declining at an alarming rate. It is found
only in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar,
Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
Poaching and cutting down the trees where the bird lives are
causing the population decline, said Eng Mengey, a communications officer at
the Wildlife Conservation Society.
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