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(May 30, 2016)   -   A slow loris was rescued by law enforcement team and now released to the wild

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(May 30, 2016)   -   WCS staff received a baby black-shanked douc from a local villager after he was found cowering alone at the bottom of a rubber tree in a plantation.

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(April 27, 2016)   -   Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Wildlife Alliance (WA), BirdLife International, Conservation International (CI), Flora and Fauna International (FFI) and The Center for People and Forests (RECOFTC) have expressed their strong support for the Royal Government of Cambodia’s (RGC) decision through Ministry of Environment (MoE) to designate almost one million hectares of new protected areas in Prey Lang, Kravanh Khang Tbong, Prey Preah Roka, Prey Siem Pang...

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(April 25, 2016)   -   Listed on IUCN Red List of Threatened Species as Critically Endangered – the highest threat level - the Royal Turtle is one of the world’s 25 most endangered tortoises and freshwater turtles. The Royal Turtle is so named because in historical times only the Royal Family could consume its eggs. Until now, the species has been designated as Cambodia’s National Reptile by Royal Decree issue on 21 March 2005. 

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(June 25, 2013)   -   A team of scientists with the Wildlife Conservation Society, BirdLife International, and other groups have discovered a new species of bird.

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(March 28, 2012)   -   Leader of the community receives the communal title from the Senior Minister for Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction

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(February 14, 2012)   -   The Seima Protection Forest is one of two official pilot demonstration sites under Cambodia's National REDD Readiness process.

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(October 13, 2011)   -   Two new species of bat have recently been described from the Seima Protection Forest

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(May 02, 2011)   -   Just before Khmer New Year, a Sarus Crane was released at WCS site Ang Trapeang Thmor (ATT).

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(April 08, 2011)   -   A second DNA-based capture-recapture survey is being undertaken in SPF this dry season. 

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(March 30, 2011)   -   One of the major threats facing wildlife populations within SPF.

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(February 18, 2011)   -   A strikingly-coloured new species of pitviper has been discovered in the Seima Protection Forest

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(February 14, 2011)   -   Community forestry groups recently began an inventory of timber and other forest resources in the buffer zone of the Seima

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(November 14, 2010)   -   The Wildlife Friendly Ibis Rice program has been extended to the village of Kompong Veang, in Kompong Thom Province.

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(October 28, 2010)   -   Monitoring in conservation areas indicates 54% increase in 2010.

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(October 21, 2010)   -   Long-running counts (since 2001) in Cambodia and Vietnam result in second-highest total count on record

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(September 14, 2010)   -   A record-breaking 429 White-shouldered Ibis (Pseudibis davisoni) have just been recorded in Cambodia.

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(September 03, 2010)   -   Latest census information has revealed that vulture population numbers are increasing in Cambodia.

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(August 11, 2010)   -   Surveys have for the first time confirmed the presence of Smooth-coated Otter in the Seima Protection Forest.

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(August 04, 2010)   -   Sarus cranes are arriving back in the Northern Plains.

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