Kingdom of Cambodia, is a small country but so amazing country, many beautifull temples, honestly people. One is the country with the rear bird called Crane.
The Ang Trapaing Thmor Crane Sanctuary is a protected area of Cambodia on the site of a large Khmer Rouge irrigation project built during the 1970s.
The sanctuary was gazetted on 1 January 1999 and covers an area of 10,250 hectares.
The reserve was set aside to protect the rare Eastern sarus crane (Grus antigone sharpii).
Prior to the discovery of the crane at Trapaing Thmor, there were thought to be fewer than 1,000 of the birds left alive in the world.
Crane counts were conducted across key sites in Cambodia and Vietnam once a month between January and April 2010.
The counts are timed to fall in the dry season, when the majority of the crane population aggregates at important feeding sites.
Counts are synchronized to occur within a short time period over the entire area. The highest count obtained was 864 cranes.
This is the second highest count since the annual census of the South-East Asian population began in 2001.
A maximum of twelve sites were covered within a single count. Of the sites covered, the Ang Trapeang Thmor Sarus Crane Conservation Area in Cambodia held the highest numbers in three of the four months (numbers tend to peak here towards the end of the dry season and the site held 366 cranes in April).
The adjacent sites of Kampong Trach (Cambodia) and Phu My (Vietnam) also had high numbers in all months (varying between 140 and 229 on census dates). Other sites which regularly hold over a hundred cranes for short periods of time, usually early in the dry season, are Boeung Prek Lapouv and the Tonle Sap Grasslands, in Cambodia.
Most sites have received some form of official designation as a protected area by the governments of Cambodia and Vietnam and the Wildlife Conservation Society-Cambodia Program, BirdLife in Indochina and the International Crane Foundation-Vietnam Program have ongoing conservation projects targeting Sarus Cranes.
The crane sanctuary is located in north western Cambodia, not far from the border with Thailand.
The entire 10,000 hectares of the protected area is contained within Phnom Srok District of Banteay Meanchey Province.
Phnom Srok district shares a border with Siem Reap and Oddar Meanchey Provinces.
Reading from the north clockwise, Phnom Srok borders with Banteay Ampil and Chong Kal districts of Oddar Meanchey province to the north.
The eastern border of the district is shared with Srei Snam and Kralanh districts of Siem Reap province.
To the south the district shares a border with Preah Net Preah District of Banteay Meanchey.
The western border of the district joins with Svay Chek and Thmor Pouk districts also of Banteay Meanchey.
The sanctuary can be accessed by road from Sisophon (70 km) or Siem Reap (city) (90 km) via National Highway 6 initially then via smaller unsealed district roads to Ang Trapaing Thmor.
