{"id":375694,"date":"2019-07-09T10:01:22","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T08:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/sen-monorom-elephants-and-a-precarious-equilibrium\/"},"modified":"2024-12-30T10:12:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T09:12:59","slug":"sen-monorom-elephants-and-a-precarious-equilibrium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/sen-monorom-elephants-and-a-precarious-equilibrium\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen Monorom, elephants and a precarious equilibrium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sen Monorom<\/strong> is the main town in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/?s=mondulkiri\">Mondulkiri<\/a><\/strong>, Cambodia&#8217;s wildest province, located on the border with Laos and Vietnam. In recent years, a number of local NGOs and associations have sprung up here to <strong>protect elephants<\/strong> and their habitat.<br\/><br\/>In Cambodia, as in other parts of Asia, elephants are considered <strong>endangered<\/strong>. The main cause is habitat loss. The uncontrolled deforestation of large areas of the territory is a very serious danger to the biodiversity that has lived here for centuries. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the territories around Sen Monorom, elephants live both in the wild and in captivity. Tradition has it that there is very close cooperation between these pachyderms and the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/blog\/nella-giungla-del-mondulkiri\/\">Bu<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/in-the-mondulkiri-jungle\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"9428\">nong<\/a><\/em>, an animist ethnic group inhabiting the Mondulkiri forests and living in symbiosis with nature. This is why Bunong men are also called <em>mahout<\/em>, a Hindi term meaning &#8216;<em>one who rides the elephant<\/em>&#8216;.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Coexistence between humans and elephants<\/strong> is not easy. It is based on a precarious equilibrium made even more fragile by the sudden changes &#8211; an unfortunate synonym for progress, in this particular case &#8211; affecting this area. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>We will go to those places<\/strong> to understand what is going on. We will live with the <em>Bunongs<\/em> and their elephants. We will listen to the stories of a sadly disappearing tradition and tell you about the <a href=\"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/geo-map\/cambogia\/\" data-type=\"_geo-map\" data-id=\"653\">Cambodia Notes<\/a> because together, we can make a difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the forests of Mondulkiri, Cambodia, the Bunong people and elephants exist in a delicate balance, where tradition clashes with the consequences of contemporary exploitation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":366755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_tracks":0,"wds_primary__dg_original-language":0,"wds_primary__geo-map":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[816],"tags":[900,944],"tracks":[1168],"_dg_original-language":[1039],"_geo-map":[982],"class_list":["post-375694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-journals","tag-elephants","tag-tribal","tracks-coexistence","_dg_original-language-italian","_geo-map-cambodia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375694"},{"taxonomy":"tracks","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tracks?post=375694"},{"taxonomy":"_dg_original-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/_dg_original-language?post=375694"},{"taxonomy":"_geo-map","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doogreporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/_geo-map?post=375694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}