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"The tiger population density in a series of protected areas in western
Thailand has more than doubled over the past two decades, according to new
survey data.
Thailand is the final stronghold of the Indochinese tiger (
Panthera tigris
corbetti), the subspecies having been extirpated from neighboring Cambodia,
Laos and Vietnam over the past decade due to poaching, habitat loss and
indiscriminate snaring.
Persistent markets for tiger skins, bones and other body parts used in
traditional medicines in China and Vietnam drive poaching and illegal trade,
which present the main threat to the big cats.
Fewer than 200 tigers are thought to remain in Thailand’s national parks and
wildlife sanctuaries, only a handful of which are sufficiently undisturbed and
well-protected to preserve breeding tigers.
The most important of these protected areas for tigers is the Huai Kha Khaeng
Thung Yai (HKK-TY) UNESCO World Heritage Site, which comprises three distinct
reserves out of the 17 that make up Thailand’s Western Forest Complex (WEFCOM).
Together, these three reserves — Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary, Thungyai
Naresuan West and Thungyai Naresuan East — account for more than a third of the
entire WEFCOM landscape.
Now, a new study published in
Global Ecology and Conservation documents a
steady recovery of tigers within the HKK-TY reserves since camera trap surveys
began in 2007. The most recent year of surveys, which concluded in November
2023, photographed 94 individual tigers, up from 75 individuals in the previous
year, and from fewer than 40 in 2007."
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