Your gift will help to buy two new patrol motorcycles for dedicated wardens protecting sun bears
A snaring epidemic of extreme magnitude has taken over the sun bears’ forest home in the Cardamom Mountains.
We need your help to raise £2,000 to buy two new patrol motorcycles, allowing local community wardens to cover more ground and protect sun bears more effectively – patrolling the area and removing snares.
If we let the snares continue to build up, it could be a death sentence for the threatened wildlife of the Cardamom Mountains. But, if everyone reading this donates, we could raise that amount by the end of the week.
Please donate now – your support will allow us to clear the snares that threaten so much wildlife, and keep sun bears safe.
What is Fauna & Flora doing to save sun bears?
There is a ray of hope for sun bears in the form of dedicated community wardens that regularly patrol the Cambodian forest.
Fauna & Flora has been training and equipping these wardens with the skills and equipment they need to remove snares and stop the illegal activities that are rampant in the forest.
It’s meticulous work – they have to painstakingly scrutinise the dense forest undergrowth to spot these death traps. Every day, thanks to them, we’re able to save sun bears and the other endangered creatures that fall victim to snares.
But we must do more.
How will new motorcycles help?
Fauna & Flora’s community wardens are doing everything they can to protect sun bears and the other wildlife that lives there, but these snares could be anywhere, and the forest is huge.
That’s why the team urgently needs your help.
These two new motorcycles would allow the wardens to cover ground so much more quickly in the dense forest – the distance that could be covered with these two extra patrol motorcycles, and the number of snares that could be removed, would be immense.
Through your support, the community wardens will be able to search so much more of the forest, remove even more snares, and ultimately protect more sun bears. Our priority is to raise £2,000 to buy these motorcycles, but we guarantee that any additional money raised will benefit sun bears and other threatened species that we’re working to protect.
Your support could make a huge difference – please, donate today.
Camera trap image of a sun bear. © Fauna & Flora
As sun bears wander through the dense forest undergrowth, it can be almost impossible for them to spot the snares lurking amongst the leaves.
These patrol motorcycles will allow community wardens to access to the remote sites that they protect, as well as to quickly cover the necessary ground to detect and deter illegal activities in the forest.
Pablo Sinovas
Country Director, Cambodia Programme
Why Fauna & Flora?
Fauna & Flora was one the first international conservation organisations to lead survey work in Cambodia’s scientifically unexplored Cardamom Mountains back in the year 2000.
In that time, we have discovered over 400 new species in the country and protected countless others from extinction. The expert teams of community wardens we support, along with our longstanding legacy of working in the region, make us the best people for the job. But your support makes all the difference.
So please donate now, and be a part of the team that could save sun bears.
All funds raised up to £2,000 will go directly towards purchasing motorcycles for the community wardens in Cambodia. If we do not raise the target amount of £2,000, all funds raised will still go directly towards our work in Cambodia. Any funds raised over £2,000 will help support our work protecting sun bears and other species around the world.