2024-05-31 23:05:38
India will ship 4 tigers to Cambodia this 12 months in a bid to assist repopulate the dominion with the massive cats, the Indian ambassador in Phnom Penh introduced Thursday.
“If we’re profitable it will likely be the primary tiger transport challenge ever carried out on this planet,” mentioned the ambassador. Devyani Khobragade. “It’s a historic challenge,” he highlighted.
No tiger has been seen in Cambodia since 2007, when the final specimen was filmed by a hidden digital camera.
Indochinese tigers, which as soon as populated Cambodian forests in massive numbers, have been thought of since 2016 as a “functionally extinct” subspecies, a sufferer of poaching based on ecologists.
The tigers, one male and three females, will initially be transferred to a 90-hectare forest positioned in a nature reserve within the Cardamom Forest (southeast) in order that they’ll acclimatize to their new atmosphere earlier than being launched into the wild. .
Greater than 400 cameras had been put in within the Cardamom Mountains Reserve in February to watch wildlife, together with tigers’ frequent prey corresponding to deer and wild boar.
Earlier than sending the 4 tigers to Cambodia, in accordance with an settlement signed in 2022, India needs to make sure that there may be sufficient prey for the beasts and no risk of poaching, the ambassador careworn.
As quickly as prey information is on the market and the monsoon season ends, “we must always obtain these tigers,” he mentioned. Khobragade to the press.
If all goes nicely, his arrival may “even happen earlier than November or December,” he added.
The Cambodian Ministry of Atmosphere and the character protection NGO Wildlife Alliance (WA) assured the reception space is prepared.
The tigers will carry transmitters that may enable them to be positioned, for the protection of the animals and the villagers, these accountable highlighted.
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2024-05-31 23:05:38