Takeo zoo animals to get new home in SR
A group of animals, including a family of gibbons, currently living at Takeo province’s Phnom Tamao Zoo are set to be transferred to Siem Reap’s Banteay Srei district in a bid to boost eco-tourism. The animals will be moved to the Khun Ream rosewood farm – a reforestation site for tourists to plant rosewood saplings – to populate a nearly 1,900-hectare site, which will be used to attract additional guests, according to a post on the Forestry Administration’s Facebook page. Mong Bunlim, director of Banteay Srei’s Forestry Administration office, confirmed the move on January 10, saying the farm currently had a few animals but that they were scattered across a broad area of jungle. The administration would build fencing to keep the newly transferred animals, which along with the gibbons include sambar and red muntjacs types of deer indigenous to Southeast Asia within the farm, he added. “We want to bring one family of gibbons, two sambars, and some red muntjacs, which are plentiful at Phnom Tamao,” Bunlim said.
