Educate Thousands of Children in Rural Cambodia

Recently, the Wildlife Rapid Rescue Team (WRRT) teamed up with the Kouprey Express Mobile Environmental Education Unit to provide training to staff employed at the Phnom Penh and Siem Reap International Airports. The purpose of this training was to improve the awareness of airport staff on the proper identification of...

At the request of Cambodia’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) Secretary of State, the Kouprey Express (KE) team and the Wildlife Rapid Rescue Team (WRRT) were invited to conduct a Community Night Show in the community of Ma-rom in Kampot province. Approximately 250 people from the villages of...

Recently the Kouprey Express (KE), Wildlife Alliance’s mobile environmental education unit, had the opportunity to attend a two-day first aid training course at the Cambodian Red Cross. This kind of training is necessary as it allows the team members to be able to respond to emergency situations with confidence. The...

Wildlife Alliance’s mobile environmental education unit, the Kouprey Express (KE), has been growing over the past year by creating some important partnerships both within and outside of the organization.  KE’s mandate is to work with schools and communities in Koh Kong Province, the hub of Wildlife...

On May 24th, the Kouprey Express (KE) and Community-Based Ecotourism (CBET) teams participated in a bi-monthly Green Night at Metahouse, the German cultural center, in Phnom Penh. Participation in this event came about after the staff of local NGO, Save Cambodia’s Wildlife (SCW), expressed interest in conducting a...

In April, the Kouprey Express Mobile Environmental Education Project was invited to join a fundraising event at French NGO, Pour un Sourire d’Enfant (PSE).  PSE works with 6,500 young adults and children who were previously trash pickers at the notorious trash dump in Steung Meanchey, on the outskirts of Phnom...

After a recent trip to the Chi Phat Primary School by the Kouprey Express, the team received 13 ‘love’ letters from students.  So enthralled by their experience, the kids felt compelled to express their gratitude to the team for helping them learn about animal welfare and the environment.  As the bus...

On September 16, 2011 the Kouprey Express took a group of 96 people from the National Borey for Infants and Children (NBIC), including orphaned and disabled children, staff, and international volunteers, on a field trip Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Center.  For many of these children, it was their first visit to PTWRC...

The Kouprey Express Environmental Education Project provides environmental educational outreach and extension activities to teachers, schoolchildren, and communities living around protected areas. Activities are based on teacher workshop, teaching directly by Kouprey Express staff to students, conducting community night...

Have you ever wondered what goes on when our Kouprey Express mobile environmental education unit visits a school? The March school visits to Angkor Phnom Klong and Veal primary schools in the Cardamom Mountains are a typical example: Teacher Capacity Building For three days, the Kouprey Express staff and educators...