![]() ![]() In March 2016, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries approved the Cambodian Tiger Action Plan. The program was set by governments of the 13 tiger-range countries with the goal to “double the number of wild tigers by 2022 - the Chinese year of the tiger,” as WWF explained in its overview of TX2. This prompted the WWF to launch the global tiger program “TX2.” This led World Wildlife Fund (WWF) to declare tigers as “functionally extinct” in Cambodia in 2016.īy 2010, the WWF said, “ had lost over 95% of the world’s tiger population to rampant poaching and habitat loss.” However, the last tiger seen in the country was in 2007 at the Srepok Wildlife Sanctuary in Mondulkiri Province. In 1999, Cambodia had the second-highest population of Indo-Chinese Tigers in the world, according to the NGO Cat Action Treasury. PHNOM PENH-Cambodia’s northeastern region was previously inhabited by one of the region’s most iconic species: the Indo-Chinese Tiger. ![]() Tigers will not be reintroduced as planned in Cambodia this year, or even next year. ![]()
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