Tag: Cambodia

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  Angelina Jolie and Kids Love to Eat Crickets

  Angelina Jolie has inadvertently (or perhaps by design) added "Ambassador for Insect Proteins" to her credentials as a do-gooder. In an interview about her Louis Vuitton ad (you remember, the one

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  Rare Video of Wild Cambodian Elephant Released by Wildlife Conservation Society

  There are only an estimated 116 wild Asian elephants in Cambodia's Seima Protection Area, and until now most of the photographic evidence of them has be taken by camera traps. New footage released by the Wildlife Conservation Society changes that. The

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  Captured Feral "Jungle Girl" Flees Back Into the Wild

  In 2007, villagers captured a mysterious young woman in a remote region of Cambodia who, by all accounts, was completely isolated from human society, a feral child living in the forests. News of her discovery

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  Conservation Canines Trained To Sniff Out Tigers in Cambodia

  For the first time, conservationists from WWF are putting dogs' superb sense of smell on the trail of tigers in Cambodia. Coming from the University of Washington Conservation Canines program, the dogs are trained to sniff out

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  The Electric Bicycle World Tour and What The World Looks Like from an E-Bike (video)

  Guim Valls Teruel is travelling 5 continents on an electric bicycle to promote the use of cleaner energy and the non-reliance on fossil fuel worldwide. Currently in New Zealand, the Electric Bicycle World Tour has already clogged quite a lot of mileage

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  China's Hydroelectric Plans to Damn the Mekong Threaten Millions

  A few short weeks ago it came out the China had plans in the works to place 20 hydroelectric dams on the upper

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  Ecstasy (MDMA) Threatens Rare Cambodian Tree

  What could ravers and other all-night clubbers of the world possibly have to do with the increasingly rare Mreah Prew Phnom trees (Cinnamomum parathenoxylon), found in

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  The Straight Poop On The Bio Toilet For Angkor Wat

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  Karaoke: From Cheesy Entertainment to Environmental Education Tool

  Karaoke video explaining not to drink water from wells painted red as they contain high levels of arsenic (YouTube via RDI-Cambodia) For this writer, karaoke has long been thought as an activity to be endured rather than enjoyed (and I am sure I am not

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  New "Corpse Plant" Species Discovered in Former Khmer Rouge Territory

  Previously unknown species in a relatively undisturbed bioregion of the Mekong River in northeastern Cambodia have been uncovered by a recent study — 24 in total, including a so-called "corpse

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  Beautiful Handbags - From Your Cat's Fur

  "Chatangora" — that's what Simpsonville, South Carolina-based business Catty Shack Creations is calling "cat hair yarn" — used to create affordable, one-of-a-kind handbags from Persian and Angora cat hair. Professional groomer Danelle

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  Cambodia's First Ethanol Plant Will Use One-Fifth of Nation's Cassava Crop

  Just a quick one on ethanol and Southeast Asia: Chinaview.cn is reporting that Cambodia has opened the nation’s first ethanol production facility. Using cassava as a feedstock, at least initially all of the

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  Uncovering an Ancient City Felled by Urban Sprawl

  With a population that approached 1 million and a surface area of more than 115 square miles, the Khmer city of Angkor in Cambodia was the largest preindustrial settlement on the planet. After coming into being during the ninth century A.D., it thrived

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  District Cotton Takes On Organic Cotton, Mosquito Netting

  The contents of your bag reveal more about you than you might think, but what about your choice of bag itself? District Cotton, a New York City-based company dedicated to fashion with a conscience, has a couple of sturdy options that are as socially

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  Saraye: Traditional Tatami Purses from Cambodia

  We love products that support or revive traditional crafts. Check out, for ex ample, the work of Kallari, fair trade suppliers of traditional Amazonian baskets, which we reported on here. Now we've come across another cool basket supplier, this time

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  Phnom Penh Restaurant Salvation for Street Kids

  You can't help but notice the street kids in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Some of them, darting through the heavy traffic of tuk-tuks and motos on their hunt for crisp dollar bills, are so young they have yet to learn to talk. Other than scooping them off

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  Recycled Tote Bag at Global Exchange

  We’ve covered numerous tote bags here on TreeHugger, but there are so many cool styles out there we always find the need to post info about new ones that we spot. This one, found at Global Exchange (who we’ve mentioned before) is handcrafted in