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Meet 'Chhouk' - an elephant with a prosthetic foot

"Chhouk" the elephant was maimed by a hunting snare when he was young.

He came to the Wildlife Alliance's Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Centre where they fitted him with a prosthetic foot.

The hunters were not trying to catch an elephant. They were after a deer, wild boar or monkeys for food but the elephant wandered into the snare by accident, said wildlife guide Emma Pollard.

Illegal logging, poaching and trafficking of animals in Cambodia is endangering the region's rainforest and leaving animals injured or killed.

The ´óÏó´«Ã½ Travel Show's Henry Golding finds out more.

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