Hey there, adventure seekers! 🌴🐯 Guess what's happening deep in the jungles of Cambodia? The country is on a mission to bring back its majestic tigers, and it's using some high-tech gadgets to do it! 📸
On Saturday, Cambodia's Ministry of Environment started installing camera traps in the lush Cardamom Mountains. These cameras are like nature's paparazzi, snapping pics of wildlife when they least expect it! 😂 But there's a serious mission behind this: to restore the tiger population that has been missing from the wild since 2007.
Khvay Atitya, the Ministry's spokesperson, shared the exciting news. \"We've designated a 90-hectare area inside the Tatai Wildlife Sanctuary for reintroducing tigers,\" he said. 🐅 The plan is to set up 410 camera traps, each placed one kilometer apart. These cameras will keep an eye on the animals that tigers love to snack on, like deer and wild boars. 🦌🐗
But why all the fuss? Well, tigers were declared \"functionally extinct\" in Cambodia back in 2016 by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). The last wild tiger was spotted over a decade ago! 😢 Now, with this new project, there's hope that these big cats will roam free again.
The cameras will be in action for three months, covering both dry and rainy seasons. This way, experts can figure out if there's enough food to support the tigers once they're reintroduced. And get this—the tigers are planned to be brought in from India! 🇮🇳
It's a wild journey ahead, but with tech-savvy moves and a dash of determination, Cambodia might just hear the roar of tigers once more. So, who's up for a jungle adventure? 🌿✨
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Wildlife cameras deployed in Cambodia to help restore tiger population
cgtn.com
