Cambodia Endangered Species

As of January 19th, 2015, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ for CAMBODIA lists 28 critically endangered species and 59 endangered species. Some of Cambodia's critically endangered species listed on the IUCN Red List include the Bengal Florican bird, Christmas Frigatebird, "giant" species (Giant Carp, Giant Ibis, Giant Pangasius, Mekong Giant Catfish, and Mekong Giant Salmon Carp), Javan Rhinoceros and Sumatran Rhinoceros, Sunda Pangolin, and White-shouldered Ibis. Not surprising because of its name, the Giant Pangasius ranks as one of the largest freshwater fish species currently in existence. Giant Pangasius fish currently inhabit the Chao Phraya river basin in central and southern Thailand and the Mekong river and its tributaries in southern and western Vietnam, east-central and eastern Cambodia, southern and western Laos, and eastern and northern Thailand. The Giant Pangasius is threatened by similar devastating occurrences that thousands of other species in the world have to contend with: pollution, overharvesting of fish, and agricultural runoff of too many nutrients.

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