As regular CFZ-watchers will know, for some time Corinna has been doing a column for Animals & Men and a regular segment on On The Track... particularly about out-of-place birds and rare vagrants. There seem to be more and more bird stories from all over the world hitting the news these days so, to make room for them all - and to give them all equal and worthy coverage - she has set up this new blog to cover all things feathery and Fortean.

Friday 8 August 2014

Vulture decline recorded in Cambodia

An annual vulture census carried out across Cambodia has recorded the second lowest population estimate for ten years. 

The new figures follow a major vulture poisoning incident that occurred in Cambodia’s Mondulkiri Protected Forest back in february when 13 vultures were found dead.

This is the largest vulture fatality ever reported from a poisoning incident in Cambodia.

Vultures have also abandoned a colony adjacent to a forest in the Mondulkiri Province after a Vietnamese company began clearing it.

“On their own, these data should not be considered evidence of a decline in the vulture population in Cambodia”, said Sum Phearun, BirdLife’s Cambodian Vulture Conservation Project Coordinator.

“The data is suggestive, though, that a decline is occurring amongst vultures in eastern Cambodia and we need to understand why and respond to it. Is it probably a result of a combination of poisoning, habitat destruction and disturbance or lack of consistency in conducting restaurants and inconsistencies in data collection at these sites.”

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