Qualla: Tatai https://qualla.com/tatai en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:38:30 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Tatai https://qualla.com/tatai Tatai: Introduction https://qualla.com/tatai/ By 1992 the Siamese crocodile was written off as extinct in the wild. Thousands still existed behind fences on Thai and Cambodian skin farms, but surveyors could not find one in a river. Then in 2000 fieldwork in the Cardamom Mountains of southwest Cambodia confirmed that scattered wild populations had quietly held on - and one of them lives in the Tatai River, the water that runs beneath the bridge at the small town of Tatai. There is not a great deal to the town. Highway 48 crosses here, buses pull in, drivers eat, and the road goes on. Almost none of them know what is upstream.

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/1/3/tatai-wk/w613-tatai-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Tatai: A Town That Is Really a Bridge https://qualla.com/tatai/ Highway 48 is the only road connecting Koh Kong, up against the Thai border, to the rest of Cambodia. It runs roughly 100 kilometres southeast to Sre Ambel, where it meets Highway 4 - another 140 kilometres to Phnom Penh, or 90 to Sihanoukville - and along the way it is carried o...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/1/3/tatai-wk/w613-tatai-a-town-that-is-really-a-bridge.mp3 0:06 2 full Tatai: What Still Lives in the Water https://qualla.com/tatai/ The Siamese crocodile is listed as critically endangered, with perhaps two to four hundred individuals left in the wild worldwide. Since 2000 researchers have identified around thirty sites in Cambodia where they persist, and the Tatai River, in Thma Bang district, is among the i...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/1/3/tatai-wk/w613-tatai-what-still-lives-in-the-water.mp3 0:06 3 full Tatai: Two Hundred and Forty-Six Megawatts https://qualla.com/tatai/ Most of the country upriver of Tatai now sits inside Southern Cardamom National Park, gazetted on 9 May 2016 across 4,104 square kilometres and stitched to neighbouring reserves into a protected block of 18,211 square kilometres. It shelters more than sixty globally threatened an...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/1/3/tatai-wk/w613-tatai-two-hundred-and-forty-six-megawatts.mp3 0:06 4 full Tatai: Who the Forest Belongs To https://qualla.com/tatai/ The Chong are one of the Pearic peoples, and they were farming these valleys long before Highway 48 was surveyed. Their agriculture is rotational: clear, plant, move on, let the forest come back. That practice does not sit comfortably inside a modern conservation boundary, and it...

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