Ministry Encourages Conservation, Domestication of Wild Animals

The Ministry of Environment is encouraging people living in or around protected areas to start feeding and domesticating wild animals, and to abstain from eating them, with similar strategies in animal conservation being attempted in communities in Preah Vihear province.

Sao Sopheap, Cabinet Chief and a spokesman for the Ministry of Environment, told Khmer Times last week that the ministry had been testing a pilot project involving conservation and feeding wild animals at the end of last year in Boeung Pe wildlife sanctuary in Preah Vihear province, in cooperation with organization partners and communities.

“The Ministry of Environment encourages local people in the communities and protected areas to preserve and feed wild animals and not to eat them,” he said. “This community-based plan for the protection of wild animals is encouraging local people to know how to use natural resources in their daily life and for stability as a whole.”

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