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| An emaciated elephant attempts to eat grass by poking her head through the fence of a pen where she is confined at Teuk Chhou Zoo in Kampot province’s Thmei Village. (Photo by: Adam Miller) |
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| The overfed Nhim Vanda |
Sunday, 27 March 2011 21:09
Adam Miller
The Phnom Penh Post
Kampot province’s Teuk Chhou zoo is a place where no one seems to care about how animals are treated, a place where animals are kept in cramped, roofless shelters and rely largely on food from tourists to survive.
The zoo is privately owned by Cambodia’s National Committee for Disaster Management Vice President Nhim Vanda and staffed by just a handful of people.
It has no roofed-in shelters as the wet season approaches or even any semblance of a natural habitat for the animals as witnessed during a visit over the weekend.
Orangutans and baboons swing restlessly back and forth between the steel bars of their three-metre square enclosures, while eagles and other birds of prey scarcely have enough space to spread their wings, let alone fly – that is if they are one of the lucky few whose wings aren’t badly damaged.
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