Australian Broadcasting Corporation
International wildlife experts are in Cambodia this week conducting the first-ever training to monitor the country's threatened bear population.
The Bear Sign Survey course, which aims to teach Cambodian park rangers to collect accurate data, is also being observed by officials from Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand with a view to replicating it in other countries.
The Free the Bears Fund says the course brings together the region's most experienced bear experts to train local rangers to collect valuable information about bears in the wild.
It is the first time this kind of training course has ever been held in Asia.
Bears continue to be hunted in large numbers throughout Southeast Asia amid growing demand for their body parts which are used in traditional medicine.
The Bear Sign Survey course, which aims to teach Cambodian park rangers to collect accurate data, is also being observed by officials from Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand with a view to replicating it in other countries.
The Free the Bears Fund says the course brings together the region's most experienced bear experts to train local rangers to collect valuable information about bears in the wild.
It is the first time this kind of training course has ever been held in Asia.
Bears continue to be hunted in large numbers throughout Southeast Asia amid growing demand for their body parts which are used in traditional medicine.
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