Cambodia plans to import tigers from India under an agreement on biodiversity conservation, sustainable wildlife management, and strategies to restore big tigers and their habitats. - AFP
PHNOM PENH: Cambodia on Saturday (Feb 17) began to install camera traps in the Cardamom Mountains in a bid to help restore tiger population in its jungle, said Khvay Atitya, spokesperson for the Ministry of Environment.
Tigers were declared "functionally extinct" in the South-East Asian country in 2016 by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), as the last big cat was photographed by a camera trap in 2007 in Srepok Wildlife Sanctuary of northeastern Mondulkiri province.
