Ministry of Environment! Calls on Citizens to Conserve the World's Rare Bird Peacock

 

The endangered peacock is estimated to number about 800 in the world, of which Cambodia has about 550 (230 male males), representing 70% of the species. In the world. This is according to the words of HE Neth Pheaktra, Secretary of State and spokesman for the Ministry of Environment.

He added that this species has been listed as the most endangered bird in the world in the IUCN Red List in the past, and in Cambodia, most of them are present in the Baray district and district. Stong, Kampong Thom Province, of the Lower Tonle Sap Landscape Protection Area.

In addition, whispers like to live in natural grasslands mixed with scattered bushes. Major threats to the habitat of rodents include habitat loss associated with conversion of grasslands and rice paddies to intensive rice paddies (two to three times per year), poaching. Law and so on.

Whistleblowers are a grassland species native to the Indian subcontinent, Cambodia, and also to Vietnam. According to the community, 22 hummingbirds (a total of 24 eggs) were found and 22 hatchlings hatched and the larvae grew and lived in the natural environment.