The US Fish and Wildlife Service has listed Cambodia’s national bird, the giant ibis, among its most ‘endangered’ species. The listing will further restrict sales of the roughly one meter tall, slender-billed waterbirds, which should help curb one of the main threats to its existence. In Cambodia the approx. 250 birds that live in Preah Vihear, Stung Treng, Kratie, Mondolkiri, and Ratanakiri provinces represent 95% of the world’s population.

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Edited from The Cambodia Daily (18-1-08)