India plans 'historic' tiger transfer to Cambodia this year

Phnom Penh (AFP) May 23, 2024

India will send four tigers to Cambodia this year in a "historic" bid to revive the kingdom's big cat population, Delhi's ambassador said Thursday. Cambodia's dry forests were once home to scores of Indochinese tigers but conservationists say intensive poaching of both tigers and their prey has devastated their numbers. The last sighting of a tiger in the Southeast Asian kingdom was from