WWF enforcement team cracks down on wildlife crimes in Mondulkiri province

Wild boar meat on display at Sen Monorom market. (Rohit Singh / WWF)

Five of the seven confiscated chainsaws at Namram outpost. (Rohit Singh / WWF)

Recently confiscated luxury wood at Namram outpost. (Rohit Singh / WWF)

16 February 2010
WWF

February has been a busy but successful month for WWF’s enforcement team in Mondulkiri’s Eastern Plains Landscape. After a weekend of day- and night-patrols, members of the mobile team – a flexible enforcement unit working throughout the whole province – had just arrived at the office when an informant called them about wild meat for sale at the market in Sen Monorom, the province’s capital. Mr Tan Seron, Ranger with the Cambodian government’s Forestry Administration, quickly mobilised his team members to head for the market, where they confiscated 6kg of wild boar meat (Sus scrofa).

This success follows several crackdowns on illegal logging in the beginning of the month when the patrolling teams of Namram and Trapeag Thmear in Mondulkiri Protected Forest confiscated seven chain saws from four villages in the protected area.

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