India's Five-Decade Battle to Save Tiger Succeeding, but Road Ahead Challenging
Ever-growing demand for land and resources in a rapidly developing country poses a pressing challenge to tiger habitats
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Ever-growing demand for land and resources in a rapidly developing country poses a pressing challenge to tiger habitats
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?
University of Michigan researchers and their colleagues used a nationwide COVID-19 lockdown in Nepal as a natural experiment to test the responses of two GPS-collared tigers to dramatic reductions in traffic volume along a national highway.
Tigers in Nepal were two to three times more likely to cross highways when COVID-19 lockdowns led to dramatic reductions in traffic.