{"id":281089,"date":"2026-06-24T22:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T02:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/secret-cameras-mics-and-ai-reveal-rare-cambodia-wildlife\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T01:25:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T05:25:21","slug":"secret-cameras-mics-and-ai-reveal-rare-cambodia-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/secret-cameras-mics-and-ai-reveal-rare-cambodia-wildlife\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret cameras, mics and AI reveal rare Cambodia wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/international-news\/20260625-secret-cameras-mics-and-ai-reveal-rare-cambodia-wildlife\">Secret cameras, mics and AI reveal rare Cambodia wildlife<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/international-news\/20260625-secret-cameras-mics-and-ai-reveal-rare-cambodia-wildlife\">https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/international-news\/20260625-secret-cameras-mics-and-ai-reveal-rare-cambodia-wildlife<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-24 22:18:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.rfi.fr\">www.rfi.fr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            <span class=\"t-location\">Cardamom National Park (Cambodia) (AFP) \u2013 <\/span>            Above the patter of rain cascading through the jungle canopy comes the haunting call of a pileated gibbon singing to fend off intruders in Cambodia&#8217;s Cardamom Mountains.        <\/p>\n<p>It is being recorded as part of work harnessing hidden microphones, cameras and artificial intelligence to reveal the secrets of species living deep in the rainforest and help protect them.<\/p>\n<p>To conservationist Ratha Sor, the whoops and whistles are the sound of hope &#8212; a sign that the country&#8217;s largest remaining stretch of intact rainforest is healthy enough to support the endangered species.<\/p>\n<p>Gibbons are &#8220;indicators that our forest is still alive&#8221;, he said.<\/p>\n<p>By showing that everything from pangolins to elephants call the Cardamom Mountains home, conservationists hope to secure its future, in a country that has lost over a third of its forest cover in the last 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the real evidence&#8230; we are conserving very unique species in our landscape,&#8221; said Ratha Sor, biodiversity and science manager at Conservation International (CI), a US-headquartered non-profit.<\/p>\n<p>The Cardamoms range, spread across more than a million hectares (2.47 million acres) in southwest Cambodia, is regarded as one of the most important remaining rainforests in the region.<\/p>\n<p>For decades, it was eaten away by rampant deforestation and emptied by poaching.<\/p>\n<p>Bolstered protections have helped slow both, though infrastructure projects, including dams, remain a serious threat.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, CI published the results of the first-ever systematic camera trap survey of the Central Cardamom region, revealing more than 100 resident species, nearly two dozen of them either vulnerable or endangered.<\/p>\n<p>That effort, involving nearly 150 devices placed at regular intervals, will be repeated later this year.<\/p>\n<p>It is supplemented by ongoing targeted camera trapping, focused on areas where animals are likely to be and offering deeper understanding of how&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/international-news\/20260625-secret-cameras-mics-and-ai-reveal-rare-cambodia-wildlife\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secret cameras, mics and AI reveal rare Cambodia wildlife https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/international-news\/20260625-secret-cameras-mics-and-ai-reveal-rare-cambodia-wildlife Publish Date: 2026-06-24 22:18:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":281092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.rfi.fr\/media\/display\/2114d6ea-703c-11f1-9025-005056a90284\/w:1280\/p:16x9\/9591e029ebf489c9b037762172ed55a79bcbe510.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281089"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281093,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281089\/revisions\/281093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}