Lomphat Wildlife Sanctuary
| Lomphat Wildlife Sanctuary | |
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IUCN category IV (habitat/species management area) | |
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| Location | Ratanakiri, Mondulkiri, and Kratie, Cambodia |
| Nearest city | Banlung |
| Coordinates | 13°19′18″N 106°55′11″E / 13.32178191°N 106.91986103°ECoordinates: 13°19′18″N 106°55′11″E / 13.32178191°N 106.91986103°E[1] |
| Area | 2,500 km2 (970 sq mi)[1] |
| Established | 1993[1] |
Lomphat Wildlife Sanctuary is a heavily forested area straddling Ratanakiri, Mondulkiri, and Kratie provinces in eastern Cambodia set aside by the Cambodian government as a wildlife preserve. With an area of 250,000 hectares, it is home to a variety of endangered wild animals such as banteng, tiger, gaur, dholes and sun bear, as well as leopards, Eld's deer, sambar deer, muntjacs and wild pigs. In addition, a number of rare birds are present: surveys have confirmed the presence of green peafowl, greater and lesser adjutant storks, sarus cranes, oriental pied hornbills, giant ibises, white-shouldered ibises, milky and wooly-necked storks, and vulture sp. (slender-billed and white-rumped), which are increasingly rare in most of South and Southeast Asia.
A Chinese company is planning to build a dam on the Srepok river, which would flood the surrounding villages and inundate more than a third of the sanctuary.
See also
References
- 1 2 3 "Lomphat Wildlife Sanctuary". WCMC. Retrieved 2009-08-30.