The most endangered nest of giant owls hatched in 2025!!!!

Mukhiri: The community living in and around Kam Sima Wildlife Sanctuary has discovered three giant crocodile nests, two of which successfully hatched three cubs in 2025.

The Keo Seima REDD+ project said that in 2025, the community found three giant crocodile nests.

This achievement shows the positive results for the bird nesting protection program that the Cambodian Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS Cambodia) has been implementing.

Through funding support from the Red Cross Scheme, local communities have become part of Cambodia's rare animal conservation work, as they are the guardians of the animals' nests, from the moment these birds nest until the hatchlings emerge from the nest.

The increase in number of giant eagle nests in 2025 has increased significantly, compared to 2024 and 2023, when only one or two nests were found.

The giant goose is the national representative bird of the Kingdom of Cambodia and the most endangered species, with the number in natural habitats being only 200 to 300 heads.

The giant squirrel prefers to live in wetland areas and on trees with wide branches. Its food sources include snails, snails, frogs, and various insects. The breeding season of the giant snail in the Wildlife Sanctuary is from May to September.

The Red Plus Sima Wildlife Project started in 2010 and is being implemented on 166,983 hectares of forest land among more than 300 hectares of the Sima Wildlife Sanctuary in the provinces of Mugiri and Phoenix.

The Red Plus Glass Sima Project is the first project in Cambodia to receive funding through the sale of carbon credits in the international market, and these funds are used for natural resource conservation work in the Wildlife Sanctuary and support the development of local communities, with the Ministry of Environment owning the project and implemented by WCS Cambodia.

This sanctuary is important for biodiversity and indigenous communities whose livelihoods, beliefs, cultures, and traditions are intertwined with the abundant natural resources of the region.

In addition, the Yellow-tailed Wildlife Sanctuary is home to more than 1,000 species of wildlife, including rare and endangered species such as white-tailed monkeys, Asian elephants, green peacocks, and many more vulnerable species, such as yellow-bellied monkeys, which are classified on the IUCN Red List.