SENDING TIGERS FROM INDIA TO CAMBODIA

India is considering translocating some tigers to Cambodia.
India signed a memorandum of understanding with Cambodia to assist it with all technical details and knowledge regarding the reintroduction of the tiger in the country.

How did tigers go extinct in Cambodia?

Due to habitat destruction and poaching.
The last tiger spotted on a camera trap in Cambodia was in 2007.
In 2016, Cambodia announced that tigers were “functionally extinct”, meaning no breeding populations of the animal were left in the country.

Tiger population:

Thirteen countries make up the tiger range of the world:
Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Russia, Thailand and Vietnam.
In 2010, these countries had met and adopted a goal to double their tiger population by 2022.
India reached the goal before that year.
With its current population of about 3,000 tigers, India harbours more than 70% of the global wild tiger population.
The animal has gone extinct in Laos and Vietnam.

Tiger species in the world:

The Indochinese tiger found in Cambodia is smaller than the Royal Bengal tiger, but they are the same subspecies.
Since 2017, IUCN has recognised two tiger subspecies, commonly referred to as the continental tiger and the Sunda island tiger.
All remaining island tigers are found only in Sumatra, with tigers in Java and Bali now extinct.
These are popularly known as Sumatran tigers.
The continental tigers currently include the Bengal, Malayan, Indochinese and Amur (Siberian) tiger populations, while the Caspian tiger is extinct in the wild.
The South China tiger is believed to be functionally extinct.

SOURCE: THE HINDU, THE ECONOMIC TIMES, PIB

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