World Tiger Day: Protecting Wild Tigers In Big Cat Countries World Tiger Day 2021: The wild tiger status is suboptimal and almost nearing extinction in the South Asian Region including areas like the South Mekong basin countries like Lao PDR, Cambodia and Vietnam. PTI/File Photo Dr. Rajesh Gopal, Mohnish Kapoor 2021-07-29T07:09:56+05:30 World Tiger Day: Protecting Wild Tigers In Big Cat Countries outlookindia.com 2021-07-29T09:50:55+05:30 We are in the “Anthropocene” epoch, marked by ongoing human induced transformations in wilderness globally. No country is an exception to this phenomena, which unfortunately treats the green capital as a “commodity”.