A helicopter successfully killed Banteng in Cambodia for the first time of 16 critically endangered Banteng, according to nature conservationists and marked a “significant performance” in a country with high deforestation rates.
Banteng is a kind of wild cattle that are native to Southeast Asia and are critically endangered in the international Union for the preservation of the red list of nature threats.
Their natural habitat is forests and grassland, but only a few thousand are in the wild and they are mostly threatened by hunting, wood strikes and industry.
According to Global Forest Watch, Cambodia has lost around 33 percent of its tree covering since 2000, since the government enables companies to clarify large country roads – even in protected zones.
Nature conservation groups that rise Phoenix and Siem Pang said that 16 Banteng in the wilderness last week were driven to a truck by a “mass capture trap” in the past week before it was moved to a protected area for wildlife.
For the first time, a helicopter was used to guide it through the funnel.
The operation took place in Siem Pang in the northeast of Cambodia.
The nature conservation groups said that the method “opened the way for further such operations to shift Banteng to isolated forest areas elsewhere in the country”.
They added that the Banteng in the Siem Pang Wildlife Sanctuary is monitored and protected.
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