By Sok Lak
The Forestry Administration of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery in cooperation with Protection Administration Department of Ministry of Environment to launch a workshop on Cambodia Tiger Action Plan 2011-2022 over two days from 23 to 24 May in order to prepare national plan to restore and protect tiger and its settles as well as develop economy in ground society.
H.E. Chheng Kim Sun, Government Delegate in charge of Forestry Administration for Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, said that tiger is a kind of Felid animal which is big, strong, smart and charming ‘that everyone consider as a symbol of power, energy and religion. Scientist determines this kind of animal as indicator of rich resource. However, according to recent research showed that tiger is threaten or to be extinct. He added that in the past, there were nine kinds of tiger, but now still remain six kinds of tiger who live in some countries such as Cambodia, Lao, Vietnam, Bhuta, Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar, China, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Russia. The last decade, many research showed that the number of tiger drop from 10000 to 3000 or 3500 tigers and it continue to drop.
He stressed that tiger in Cambodia is a kind of Indochina tiger which have in the south of China, Mynamar, Thailand, Lao, Cambodia, Vietnam and some part of Malaysia. In 60s, tiger in Cambodia consider as rich resource in country that allow hunting every season. But now the number of this kind of this animal seriously decreases and to be extinct.
According to first national consensus estimate of Cambodia tiger population in 2004, there were total of 11 to 50 tigers in Cambodia, with a notation that the total may now be less than 30.
As the data from national rapid wildlife rescue team from 2001 to 2010, Cambodia rescued 43,463 individual live wildlife, confiscated 21,062 individual dead wildlife specimens, confiscated 6,788 kilogram of wildlife meat, bones and skins, apprehended 2,171 wildlife traders, and collected 98,471 in fines.
He mentioned that Cambodia’s long term goal by 2022 is to restore and conserve the Core Zone of the Mondulkiri Protection Forest as an inviolate Tiger Recovery Site within a well defined Eastern Plains Tiger Conservation Landscape that is tiger permeable and can potentially hold at least 50 tigers.
Source: The Southeast Asia Weekly, May 29-June 4, 2011, Vol. 5, Issue 22, Page 8
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