Last night I went on a bit of a 'jolly' up the mountain, to bring back the camera traps that had been up there for a couple of weeks since the last check. Actually it was more like Alistair went up to get the camera traps, and I tagged along. We walked on and on until it was just dark, then stopped for some dinner...
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| Fried rice and cans of coke by torchlight in the forest |
Alistair confidently proclaimed that this time he would remember where he'd put the camera traps. After letting him bash around in the forest for a while I handed him the GPS, which he accepted with a wry acknowledgement that he had no idea where the bloody things were. At least, if we can't find them then local people can't either and therefore can't steal them.
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| Found it! Now where's the key for the padlock? |
We finally arrived back at home at around 10pm, and immediately put the SD card into my laptop to check out the hundreds of photos that had been taken when the motion sensors were triggered. Lots and lots of photos of seemingly nothing, the wind moving some leaves or something. Quite a few Siamese firebacks (a kind of pheasant), jungle fowl, mouse deer, lots of porcupines, and for the first time wild pig.
I don't have the pictures from last night, but here is a selection of some other camera trap shots from some of the conservation NGOs working here in Cambodia:
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| Porcupines (photo Frontier-Cambodia) |
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| Common palm civets (photo Frontier-Cambodia) |
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| Gaur (photo Frontier-Cambodia) |
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| Mongoose (photo Frontier-Cambodia) |
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| Muntjac (photo WCS-Cambodia) |
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| Banteng (photo WCS-Cambodia) |
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| Smooth-coated otter (photo WCS-Cambodia) |
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| Sambar deer (photo WCS-Cambodia) |
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| Sun bear (photo Frontier-Cambodia) |
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| Asian elephant (photo WCS-Cambodia) |
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