Sibille de Cartier d’Yves meets with a farmer throughout her go to to Mekong Flooded Forest panorama from December 1-Three. WWF CAMBODIA
The Belgian ambassador to Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar and Laos paid a three-day go to to Cambodia to study concerning the work being achieved to preserve biodiversity, together with uncommon deer and dolphins within the Mekong River.
Silbille de Cartier d’Yves, whose residence is within the Thai capital Bangkok, visited the Mekong flooded forest space in Kratie province on December 1-Three to study concerning the work of conserving biodiversity being funded by the Belgian authorities by the World Huge Fund for Nature (WWF) in Belgium and applied by WWF Cambodia.
She additionally visited the forest habitat of muntjacs, or barking deer, close to the Koh Prum Charey ecotourism neighborhood in Prek Prasob Wildlife Sanctuary and the Mekong River’s Irrawaddy dolphin conservation space within the Kampi sanctuary.
WWF Cambodia mentioned in a press assertion that the delegation had met to debate related duties, strengthening legislation enforcement, monitoring and researching biodiversity and the neighborhood livelihood improvement programme, which was developed in shut cooperation with the federal government and the native communities.
Citing a 2020 census of dolphins, WWF mentioned dolphins have been thought of to be the residing nationwide heritage of Cambodia and their numbers have been estimated to be at 89, all residing on the Mekong River in Kratie and Stung Treng provinces.
“The survival of the Mekong River Irrawaddy dolphins was threatened by unlawful fishing in protected areas and constructing hydropower dams on the higher streams. We’d like extra pressing and stronger cooperation to arrange measures to extra successfully preserve them to keep away from their extinction,” he mentioned.
WWF thanked the Belgian authorities for funding and supporting the conservation programme and the neighborhood livelihoods improvement programme within the Mekong flooded forest areas in Cambodia.
The Ministry of Surroundings mentioned that within the Mekong flooded forest areas, the ministry and the WWF have been collaborating carefully with related departments, communities and native authorities to guard forests and pure assets and endangered wildlife in two protected areas protecting 62,000ha.
The Prek Prasob Wildlife Sanctuary is wealthy in pink muntjacs, leopards and musk cats. The sanctuary can also be the habitat of Eld’s deer and uncommon birds similar to the large ibis, white-shouldered ibis, woolly-necked storks, lesser adjutant storks, peacocks and river gulls, all of that are endangered species.
