For the first time, conservationists say, a helicopter in Cambodia successfully herded 16 critically endangered banteng onto a truck, a “significant achievement” in a nation where deforestation is rampant.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of threatened species lists the banteng, a kind of wild cattle indigenous to Southeast Asia, as critically endangered.
Forests and grasslands are their native habitat, but there are just a few thousand left in the wild, and industry, logging, and hunting pose the biggest threats to them.
