Angkor Centre for Conservation of Biodiversity

[3] Situated on 25 hectares within the Phnom Kulen National Park, ACCB is located in a remote, rural and isolated area of Siem Reap Province near the Angkor Wat temples.

Various wild animals live in the adjacent forest, including Burmese hares, Malayan porcupines, northern pig-tailed macaques, small Indian mongoose and numerous birds.

[5] Between 2001 and 2002, Kai-Olaf Krüger, project manager, and Isabell Stich, veterinarian, arrived in Cambodia from Germany to locate a site for the centre.

[4] The ACCB has rescued, rehabilitated and released many important species of Cambodian wildlife, including rare mammals such as Asian palm civets, Bengal slow lorises, Germain's langurs, leopard cats, pileated gibbons and Sunda pangolins.

[6] A great variety of birds have been rescued, several of which are water birds like Asian openbills, black-crowned night herons, cattle egrets, greater adjutants, lesser adjutants, lesser whistling ducks and little egrets, as well as Brahminy kites, collared scops owls, crested serpent eagles, green peafowl and red-breasted parakeets.