Qualla: Tatai Wildlife Sanctuary https://qualla.com/tatai-wildlife-sanctuary en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:39:17 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/w/3/c/x/tatai-wildlife-sanctuary-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Tatai Wildlife Sanctuary https://qualla.com/tatai-wildlife-sanctuary Tatai Wildlife Sanctuary: Introduction https://qualla.com/tatai-wildlife-sanctuary/ Photo credit en:User:Cburnett, CC BY-SA 3.0. Tatai Wildlife Sanctuary was five years old when the government took 26,103 hectares out of it. The sanctuary had been created on 9 May 2016 by Sub-decree No. 80, drawing a line around 1,442.75 square kilometres of the Cardamom Mountains in Koh Kong province - rivers, mangrove estuary, and some of the best-preserved rainforest left in mainland Southeast Asia. In March 2021 a second sub-decree redrew the line inward. It was not a technical adjustment at the margins, and Tatai was not the only one.

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/3/c/x/tatai-wildlife-sanctuary-wp/w3cx-tatai-wildlife-sanctuary-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Tatai Wildlife Sanctuary: Drawn, Then Redrawn https://qualla.com/tatai-wildlife-sanctuary/ Photo credit en:User:Cburnett, CC BY-SA 3.0. Sub-decree No. 30 removed roughly 127,000 hectares from eight protected areas across Koh Kong province in a single stroke - an area about twice the footprint of Phnom Penh. Conservation science has a bloodless acronym for this kind of thing, PADDD, for protected area downgrading,...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/3/c/x/tatai-wildlife-sanctuary-wp/w3cx-tatai-wildlife-sanctuary-drawn-then-redrawn.mp3 0:06 2 full Tatai Wildlife Sanctuary: The Land Rush https://qualla.com/tatai-wildlife-sanctuary/ Photo credit en:User:Cburnett, CC BY-SA 3.0. What followed was, in Mongabay's account, a fire sale. Reporting on the aftermath named Defence Minister Tea Banh as having proposed the reduction and his brother, navy chief Tea Vinh, as coordinating sales; the tycoon Ly Yong Phat, known locally as the King of Koh Kong, acquired...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/3/c/x/tatai-wildlife-sanctuary-wp/w3cx-tatai-wildlife-sanctuary-the-land-rush.mp3 0:06 3 full Tatai Wildlife Sanctuary: What the Dam Moved https://qualla.com/tatai-wildlife-sanctuary/ Photo credit en:User:Cburnett, CC BY-SA 3.0. In 2014 the China National Machinery Industry Corporation completed the 246-megawatt Stung Tatai hydropower dam, one of the largest generating stations in the country. Dams displace people twice: once from the reservoir, and then again wherever those people end up. Families moved...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/3/c/x/tatai-wildlife-sanctuary-wp/w3cx-tatai-wildlife-sanctuary-what-the-dam-moved.mp3 0:06 4 full Tatai Wildlife Sanctuary: The Tiger That Isn't There https://qualla.com/tatai-wildlife-sanctuary/ Photo credit en:User:Cburnett, CC BY-SA 3.0. A camera trap caught the last confirmed Indochinese tiger in Cambodia in 2007. In 2016 the government declared the subspecies functionally extinct in the country - not a slow scientific fading but an announcement, in a place that had held tigers within living memory. Snaring is t...

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