I'd like to think there were a couple of tigers left, but I used to know the guy who was responsible for all the camera traps and he said nary a glimpse in years.
The Chinese brothers have had all the geckos, for Christ's sake. What chance old stripey.
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Loads of warning signs on some roads in NE India, for tigers, rhinos, and elephants.
Realised how much the locals feared wild elephants when we cycled past two locals on bikes coming in the opposite direction who shouted - "Haati!!!, Haati!!", gesturing down the road.
Then we passed by a wild elephant.
Amazing to see, and grateful that it was too engrossed in feeding to care about us.
Realised how much the locals feared wild elephants when we cycled past two locals on bikes coming in the opposite direction who shouted - "Haati!!!, Haati!!", gesturing down the road.
Then we passed by a wild elephant.
Amazing to see, and grateful that it was too engrossed in feeding to care about us.
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India Plans 'Historic' Tiger Transfer To Cambodia This Year
By AFP - Agence France Presse
India will send four tigers to Cambodia this year in a "historic" bid to revive the kingdom's big cat population, Delhi's ambassador said Thursday.
Cambodia's dry forests were once home to scores of Indochinese tigers but conservationists say intensive poaching of both tigers and their prey has devastated their numbers.
The last sighting of a tiger in the Southeast Asian kingdom was from a camera trap in 2007 and the cats were declared "functionally extinct" in Cambodia in 2016.
The new arrivals will be sent to a 90-hectare (222-acre) forest inside a wildlife sanctuary in the Cardamom rainforest to acclimatise to their new home before being released into the wild, according to officials.
Officials in February installed more than 400 cameras at one-kilometre intervals in the reserve in the Cardamom Mountains to monitor wildlife, particularly animals that tigers prey upon, such as deer and boar.
Before sending the tigers -– one male and three females –- India wants to ensure there is sufficient prey and no possibility of poaching, said Indian ambassador Devyani Khobragade.
As soon as data on the prey arrives and the monsoon season eases, "we should have these tigers", she told reporters in Phnom Penh.
"Hopefully it could be even before November or December."
"If the project is successful, that will be the first translocation project of tigers anywhere in the world," she said.
"This is a historic project."
Both Cambodia's environment ministry and conservation group Wildlife Alliance (WA) said they were confident the area was ready for the tigers, which were first promised to Cambodia in a deal signed in 2022.
"There is no snare present in the core zone of the tigers, it's zero, it is going to stay that way," WA founder and CEO Suwanna Gauntlett said.
Sixteen ranger stations have been set up around the area, along with a station to monitor the tigers, an enclosure, a prey tunnel, and a dedicated water supply, she said.
The tigers will be tagged with monitoring devices for the safety of the animals and nearby villages, officials said.
Several more tigers will be imported over the next five years if the project goes smoothly, according to Cambodian environment ministry officials.
Deforestation and poaching have devastated tiger numbers across Asia.
Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam have all lost their native populations, while Myanmar is thought to have just 23 tigers left in the wild.
India's wild tiger population now exceeds 3,600, according to government figures released last year, following a massive conservation campaign.
By AFP - Agence France Presse
India will send four tigers to Cambodia this year in a "historic" bid to revive the kingdom's big cat population, Delhi's ambassador said Thursday.
Cambodia's dry forests were once home to scores of Indochinese tigers but conservationists say intensive poaching of both tigers and their prey has devastated their numbers.
The last sighting of a tiger in the Southeast Asian kingdom was from a camera trap in 2007 and the cats were declared "functionally extinct" in Cambodia in 2016.
The new arrivals will be sent to a 90-hectare (222-acre) forest inside a wildlife sanctuary in the Cardamom rainforest to acclimatise to their new home before being released into the wild, according to officials.
Officials in February installed more than 400 cameras at one-kilometre intervals in the reserve in the Cardamom Mountains to monitor wildlife, particularly animals that tigers prey upon, such as deer and boar.
Before sending the tigers -– one male and three females –- India wants to ensure there is sufficient prey and no possibility of poaching, said Indian ambassador Devyani Khobragade.
As soon as data on the prey arrives and the monsoon season eases, "we should have these tigers", she told reporters in Phnom Penh.
"Hopefully it could be even before November or December."
"If the project is successful, that will be the first translocation project of tigers anywhere in the world," she said.
"This is a historic project."
Both Cambodia's environment ministry and conservation group Wildlife Alliance (WA) said they were confident the area was ready for the tigers, which were first promised to Cambodia in a deal signed in 2022.
"There is no snare present in the core zone of the tigers, it's zero, it is going to stay that way," WA founder and CEO Suwanna Gauntlett said.
Sixteen ranger stations have been set up around the area, along with a station to monitor the tigers, an enclosure, a prey tunnel, and a dedicated water supply, she said.
The tigers will be tagged with monitoring devices for the safety of the animals and nearby villages, officials said.
Several more tigers will be imported over the next five years if the project goes smoothly, according to Cambodian environment ministry officials.
Deforestation and poaching have devastated tiger numbers across Asia.
Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam have all lost their native populations, while Myanmar is thought to have just 23 tigers left in the wild.
India's wild tiger population now exceeds 3,600, according to government figures released last year, following a massive conservation campaign.
Bringing the news. You stay classy, nas, Cambodia.
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Right, and with the national parks in the Kingdom so effectively monitored and protected, the tiger will surely thrive....
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Four tigers killed and skinned, teeth and claws extracted and powdered to help some compensating sod in 4, 3, 2, 1....
As we all know, Cambodia has its fair share of "characters." When Suwanna Gauntlett moved here, established Wild Aid, and started training Park Rangers to carry guns, be tough, and try to enforce the letter of the law, I snobbishly thought, "she won't last." Not only has she proved me wrong in lasting, her hardball methods have been shown to be almost exactly what environment protection in Cambodia needs, and probably always did. That Cambodia's wilderness areas are but a fragment of what they were, is certainly no fault of her's. The problem is that there aren't enough like her. (She is far from alone, of course, other brave Cambodians and expats (Ben and wife at BeTreed for example)have done their part, but Suwanna stands out.)
I have no idea if this tiger reintroduction will work, but it certainly seems worth a try. IF it works, pointing to one of the biggest and most romantic of the mega fauna will provide a rationale to better protect the whole area: "We have tigers there, TIGERS, they can't log/develop that area! Praise to India too for making it possible!
With the Prime Minister and MOE fully onside, I would rather Suwanna Gauntlett and her crew being a key implementing agency than anyone else. Will they need luck, sure, but I very much hope it works.
I have no idea if this tiger reintroduction will work, but it certainly seems worth a try. IF it works, pointing to one of the biggest and most romantic of the mega fauna will provide a rationale to better protect the whole area: "We have tigers there, TIGERS, they can't log/develop that area! Praise to India too for making it possible!
With the Prime Minister and MOE fully onside, I would rather Suwanna Gauntlett and her crew being a key implementing agency than anyone else. Will they need luck, sure, but I very much hope it works.
Khmer Times and other local news sites report on recent Tiger sightings near beautiful Sisophon, the capital of Banteay Meanchey Province. Seems improbable, but wild animals do roam far sometimes.
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Flora & Fauna International placed Camera traps at several of Battambang's Karst Mountains and caught snaps of a surprising array of wildlife. Several deer species, porcupines, even serrow. Hopefully small ranges like the hills extending behind Banon, will be better protected as a result. Through Covid there seemed an increase in wire snares, so nice if those could be reduced.
As around Kampot, steep karst mountains, even those of low elevation, hide amazing biological diversity. Islands in a sea of rice fields.
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Flora & Fauna International placed Camera traps at several of Battambang's Karst Mountains and caught snaps of a surprising array of wildlife. Several deer species, porcupines, even serrow. Hopefully small ranges like the hills extending behind Banon, will be better protected as a result. Through Covid there seemed an increase in wire snares, so nice if those could be reduced.
As around Kampot, steep karst mountains, even those of low elevation, hide amazing biological diversity. Islands in a sea of rice fields.
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