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About the rangers

These rangers and field staff are part of a team that was recently given the award for the “Best Law Enforcement Monitoring Effort in critical tiger landscape” by WWF’s Tigers Alive Initiative.

The team, from the Eastern Plains Landscape in Mondulkiri, northeast Cambodia, is one of the few that were recently rewarded by WWF for excellence in protection efforts against poaching and other illegal activities.

In the field

  • Ranger with rescued leopard cat, Eastern Plains Landscape, Cambodia

    In the field

    © Rohit Singh / WWF-Cambodia

    Ranger with rescued leopard cat, Eastern Plains Landscape, Cambodia

  • Rangers rescuing illegally caught porcupine, Eastern Plains Landscape, Cambodia

    In the field

    © Rohit Singh / WWF-Cambodia

    Rangers rescuing illegally caught porcupine, Eastern Plains ...

  • Confiscated snares and guns, Eastern Plains Landscape, Cambodia

    In the field

    © Rohit Singh / WWF-Cambodia

    Confiscated snares and guns, Eastern Plains Landscape, Cambodia

  • Ranger disactivating a snare in the forest, Eastern Plains Landscape, Cambodia

    In the field

    © Rohit Singh / WWF-Cambodia

    Ranger disactivating a snare in the forest, Eastern Plains ...

  • Ranger with sunbear, a protected and endangered species, Eastern Plains Landscape, Cambodia

    In the field

    © Rohit Singh, WWF-Cambodia

    Ranger with sunbear, a protected and endangered species, Eastern ...

  • Rangers planning a patrol, Eastern Plains Landscape, Cambodia

    In the field

    © Rohit Singh / WWF-Cambodia

    Rangers planning a patrol, Eastern Plains Landscape, Cambodia

  • Offenders caught by rangers in the Eastern Plains Landscape, Cambodia

    In the field

    © Rohit Singh / WWF-Cambodia

    Offenders caught by rangers in the Eastern Plains Landscape, ...

  • Rangers, Eastern Plains Landscape, Cambodia

    In the field

    © Rohit Singh / WWF-Cambodia

    Rangers, Eastern Plains Landscape, Cambodia

Rangers here regularly walk the forests to monitor poaching and other illegal activities. They also visit markets and restaurants to check that they are not selling wildlife that is protected.

Where the rangers work

The Eastern Plains Landscape in northeast Cambodia covers an area over 15,000 km2. As Southeast Asia’s largest block of dry tropical forest, tiger experts say it has perhaps the highest potential in Asia for reintroduction and to help tiger populations recover.

Here, WWF focuses its efforts on Mondulkiri Protected Forest and Phnom Prich Wildlife Sanctuary (approximately 6,000 km2 in total), a refuge for the Asian elephant, leopard and banteng (an endangered wild cattle species), among others.

The goal is to keep one of the last great wilderness of Cambodia intact and connected, helping people protect their wildlife while sustaining livelihoods, at a time when it is under threat from uncontrolled and illegal logging, hunting and illegal wildlife trade—among a growing tide of other threats.

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