While patrolling the forest, Wildlife Alliance rangers from the Veal Pi station discovered a sambar deer entrapped in a metal snare. The sambar appeared to have open wounds on his hind legs from struggling to escape but did not appear to have any serious injuries. The rangers carefully loosened the wire snare but the traumatized deer took a while to get up and run away once freed. Sambar deer are Vulnerable to extinction and are mainly threatened by habitat loss and hunting. Thankfully, our rangers are protecting the sambar population in the Cardamom mountains from both threats.
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