The Karen Wildlife Conservation initiative (KWCI) began implementing the Integrated Tiger Habitat Conservation Programme (ITHCP) in 2017. Funded by IUCN-KfW the project aims to secure protected areas in the Dawna-Karen Hills to ensure no further decrease in the tiger population and the opportunity for tiger numbers...
Leading scientists and experts in the field of rhino conservation state in a new paper that it is safe to consider the Sumatran rhinoceros extinct in the wild in Malaysia. The survival of the Sumatran rhino now depends on the 100 or fewer remaining...
The first project to reintroduce hornbills back into the ancient forests of northern Thailand was launched today by Dr Pilai Poonswad, Thailands foremost expert and researcher on hornbills and Mr Demis Galli, the Flight of the Gibbons Director of Conservation. After an initial assessment this year of...
The Zoological Society of London: 2 June 2015 The Zoological Society of London (ZSL) has, for the first time, captured photographs of tigers in the southern region of Thailand’s Western Forest Conservation Complex (WEFCOM) using camera traps. Until now, there has been no formal record of...
The Karen Wildlife Conservation Initiative (KWCI) has recently become an official member of the Asian Ranger Federation (ARF) and the International Ranger Federation (IRF). The ARF and IRF aim to raise awareness of and support the critical work that the world’s park rangers do in...
Ruben Sario - Star Asia News Network KOTA KINABALU - Sabah wildlife experts are for the first time acknowledging the grim fate of the state's Sumatran rhinos. They are now certain that the three rhinos in captivity are the only ones left and they are incapable of...
The Kings Roman casino complex in Laos' Special Economic Zone in Boten province has been operating for over 5 years since it was approved by the Lao government in 2007. There has been many reports and investigations made and submitted to various conservation organisations and...
LA Times, March 15, 2015 By WILLIAM DEBUYS The illegal traffic in wildlife, a nearly $20-billion-a-year business, adds up to a global war against nature. Unchecked, it will give us a most un-Disneyesque future in which Dorothy's “Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!” will truly be...
BANGKOK. The future for dwindling populations of tigers and elephants in Southeast Asia looks brighter today following the launch of a special training operation for forest protection staff. The exercise, conducted in Thailand's Khao Yai National Park, was designed to help forest protection staff reduce poaching...
With the help of remote camera traps, wildlife rangers have confirmed that the Sumatran rhino (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) still inhabits the Leuser ecosystem in northern Sumatra, making the forest the only place on the Earth where Sumatran tigers, orangutans, elephants, and rhinos survive in a single...