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Cambodia wants to bring tigers back, but should it?
The plan would import tigers from India into a 40-hectare enclosure, but a draft budget puts costs at just under $43 million through 2030.
- In May, Cambodia's environment ministry approved a roadmap to reintroduce tigers to the Cardamom Mountains, with arrivals slated for next year despite funding negotiations that delayed the project past its original 2024 target.
- Concerns about habitat suitability and suspension of a carbon credit project stalled the initiative, forcing officials to renegotiate funding to secure the program's future.
- Tigers will occupy a 40-hectare enclosure as part of a project costing under $43 million through 2030, though local resident Lin Meng questioned the expenditure given the site's proximity to her home.
- Indian biologist Ullas Karanth called the project 'doomed' due to insufficient prey, while consultant Jimmy Borah of Aaranyak countered that camera traps confirm adequate prey and the reintroduction sends a powerful conservation message.
- Tom Gray of WWF's global tiger program said the project could help secure Cambodian landscapes and curb unsustainable development, though Panthera's Axel Moehrenschlager warned translocated tigers may range widely, requiring tracking and interception plans.
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Cambodia wants to bring tigers back, but should it?
Pan Sok still remembers his relative screaming as a tiger dragged him away one night, deep inside the Cambodian rainforest where they were tapping trees for resin.
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Pan Sok remembers very well the screams of one of his loved ones that night, more than 30 years ago."I saw the tiger take him," he says. "He screamed but we couldn't help him."The last confirmed observation of these fawns in the...
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