Decades after poachers stripped the forests surrounding Angkor Wat of large mammals, an innovative conservation group is bringing them back. Already, Wildlife Alliance has rewilded the forest with gibbons and langurs. And more are coming.
From Stonehenge to the Great Wall of China this week’s seven alternative wonders are all stunning feats of human achievement often set in some of the most remote parts of the world. Use the arrows to the right to navigate the photographs
It has survived the collapse of the sophisticated civilisation that built it, centuries of consumption by the suffocating jungle and the nihilism of the Khmer Rouge, who beheaded its stone Buddhas and used its walls for target practice.
Cambodia is gradually emerging from the shadow of its past to become one of Asia's most intriguing destinations. Dan White explores the ancient splendours of Angkor Wat and the modern horror of Pol Pot's killing fields