Year of the Tiger highlights urgent need to rewild tiger populations in Laos, says World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)


Image from WWF via Laotian Times.

VIENTIANE, Feb 13: In the Year of the Tiger, it may be time to bring the iconic big cat back from the brink of extinction in Laos, reports Laotian Times.

Without recorded evidence of tigers in the forests of Laos for almost a decade, a new report from World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) states that the animal could well be extinct.

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