Tiger Core News Today

3,167! That’s the number of tigers in the wild in India. It’s a testimony of the country’s massive conservation efforts to save the big cats, which were on the brink of extinction. But now several of the tiger reserves have reached their carrying capacity. What happens from hereon?

India, which has 70 per cent of the global wild tiger population, is considering translocating some big cats to Cambodia. The country declared tigers ‘functionally extinct’ in 2016 and is making efforts to reintroduce the carnivores

India is considering translocating some tigers to Cambodia. How did the tiger go extinct in Cambodia and why is it trying to reintroduce them from India?