Rare wild cattle herded in Cambodia by helicopter

A helicopter successfully herded 16 critically endangered banteng onto a truck in Cambodia for the first time, conservationists said, marking a "significant achievement" in a country with high rates of deforestation. 

Banteng are a type of wild cattle native to Southeast Asia and listed as critically endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List of threatened species. Their natural habitat is forests and grasslands, but only a few thousand remain in the wild and they are mostly threatened by hunting, logging and industry. 

Conservation groups Rising Phoenix and Siem Pang said that the banteng will be monitored and protected at the Siem Pang Wildlife Sanctuary.