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Cambodia

Recovering forests and a growing camp sector

Cambodia's elephant population is small but ecologically significant, with wild herds in the Cardamom Mountains and a captive sector tied to temples and tourism. Conservation focus is on anti-poaching, corridor protection, and welfare standards at visitor facilities.

SubspeciesIndian elephant (E. m. indicus)TrendDecliningWild~400

~400

Wild population

Estimated in range

146

Database records

From elephant.se

133

Living

127 named

36

Camps

Distinct facilities

5Sanctuaries
28HEC / year

Connectivity

Migration corridors

Where habitat must be linked to maintain genetic flow and wild range.

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Cardamom Mountain Corridor

high

Cross-border forest through the Cardamom Mountains. One of the last routes connecting Cambodia's shrinking elephant population with Thailand's western forests.

4,500 ha secured30%

Resources

Field notes & stories

Editorial coverage relevant to Cambodia.

All resources

Data source

Individual elephant records are synced from elephant.se by Dan A. J. Koehl, used under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. We reformatted the data for search and filtering; the original records remain authoritative.

Records synced weekly into MySQL on mahoot.xyz.