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Tigers to Cambodia: Disaster in the Making
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Tigers to Cambodia: Disaster in the Making

Money better spent protecting wild tiger populations elsewhere, and on Cambodia’s own clouded leopards

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Jun 13, 2024
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The last tiger in Cambodia, 2007. Photo from WWF

India is set to send four tigers, one male and three females, to Cambodia this year, a country where they were declared extinct in 2016, with the last one camera-trapped in Mondulkiri province in 2007. The reason for their extinction in Cambodia – poaching – remains unresolved, and if anything has intensif…

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