Predicting the location of vulture colonies in the Northern and Eastern plains of Cambodia | |
| Author | Pech Bunnat |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no.NR-12-14 |
| Subject(s) | Vultures--Conservation--Cambodia Vultures--Cambodia |
| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the d egree of Master of Science in N atural Resource Management, School of Environment, Resources and Development |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Series Statement | Thesis ; no. NR-12-14 |
| Abstract | Cambodia is of global importance for the conservation of Asian vultures. In the Indian Subcontinent, vulture populations have declined from 95% to 99.9% since 1992. All three species listed as Critically Endangered s pecies . T he population declining in South - east Asia can cause by veterinary use of the drug diclofenac. Vulture colonies found across the Northern and Eastern of Cambodia and these are very vulnerable to disturbance and threat by people. Despite ongoing vu lture conservation program, vulture populations were declining as they were failing to bre ed. There were three vulture species of their old and new colonies detected from 2004 - 2011 approximately 184 sites . It is likely that further nests remain undetected in Cambodia . The goal of this study is to identify undetected vulture colonies by characterising known colonies and using these data to identify new potentially suitable sites across their known range in northern and eastern p lains of Cambodia. The method used including habitat, geographic location, altitude, relief, remoteness, nesting tree species and height tree amongst others. These data used entered into a GIS database and us ing modeling system were made to find out unknown potentially suitable vultur e colony sites. The modeling system found 572 sites, 450,693 ha and 0.004219749% of country in six provinces that are poss ibility for vulture colonies . The vulture protection project improved conservation management at each colony, including nest protecti on and management by cooperate with local community to education on threat factors to birds in order to minimize or without any negative impact threat to significant raptor species and other globally endangered wildlife in northern and eastern plains of Ca mbodia. However, CVCP needs to collaborate with government agencies and other relevant institutions to ban on import of declofenac and stop illegal poison use in agriculture purpose. On other hands, ecotourism should promote in all areas of CVCP in order t o increase benefit to community to reduce povert y in remote country sites. |
| Year | 2012 |
| Corresponding Series Added Entry | Asian Institute of Technology. Thesis ; no. NR-12-14 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Environment, Resources, and Development (SERD) |
| Department | Department of Development and Sustainability (DDS) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Natural Resources Management (NRM) |
| Chairperson(s) | Rajendra Prasad Shrestha |
| Examination Committee(s) | Ganesh P. Shivakoti;Theo Ebbers;Simon Mahood |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program (JJ/WBGSP) |
| Degree | Thesis (M. Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2012 |