The sanctuary is home to the extremely rare and highly endangered hog deer species, which happen to be protected by another rarity of sorts – one of the Ministry of Environment’s few women who are serving as park rangers.
The areas where they focus their patrols are the places where the hog deer typically are found and the areas where any perpetrators of forest crimes are likely to be caught. Because she is a woman, she is assigned to patrol during the day only, while male park rangers handle patrols at night. “If women are determined that they want to do their part and help to conserve our natural resources, and they are willing to work as hard as the men, then they will be able to do the job,” she said.
According to a 2022 report by the World Wildlife Fund for Nature in Cambodia , the hog deer which are found in the sanctuary are currently listed as globally endangered on the IUCN Red List. Pheaktra claimed that the problem isn’t a lack of rangers, and when asked how so few rangers can possibly protect the wildlife in the sanctuary and especially the hog deer in this area, he noted that people from the nearby communities – in collaboration with the WWF – have organised into a volunteer force that act as assistants to the park rangers.
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