Wildlife in Cambodia includes dholes, elephants, deer (sambar, Eld’s deer, hog deer and muntjac), wild oxen (banteng and gaur), panthers (panther is a vague term, but generally refers to black cats, here it is black leopards which are far more common in Cambodia than elsewhere) and bears. Cormorants, cranes, ibises, parrots, green peafowl, pheasants, and wild ducks are also found, and species of venomous snakes and constrictors are numerous.

It should be noted, that tigers roamed the forests in the near past, but they were declared functionally extinct in 2016. There is much effort going on, to try to find out if there is actually any tigers present, or if tigers are naturally returning from populations in surrounding countries.

Cambodia can be divided into four ecological regions: the Annamite Range moist forests, the Cardamom Mountains moist forests, the Central Indochina dry forests and the Mekong freshwater ecoregion. It is perhaps not, therefore, surprising, that there are a total of 162 different species of mammals in the country to try to see.

There are just 7 national parks in Cambodia, but a further 66 protected areas, and these account of a total of 41% of the country. If these are honoured as time goes by, then much wildlife will continue to survive in the country.

Below is a list of any news that has been published on this website about Cambodia and below you will find a video about Cambodian wildlife. Below that you will find all the resources that we link with to help you plan your visit.