{"id":44004,"date":"2025-08-04T23:57:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T23:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/44004\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T23:57:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T23:57:19","slug":"after-10-years-tigers-may-come-roaring-back-in-cambodia-with-indias-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/44004\/","title":{"rendered":"After 10 years, tigers may come roaring back in Cambodia \u2014 with India\u2019s help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/123075737.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>India, a global leader in tiger conservation, will send six big cats to the Southeast Asian nation under a pact signed three years ago \u2014 marking a first-ever international effort to reintroduce the apex predators into an extinct environment<\/p>\n<p>More than a decade after Cambodia lost its native Indochinese tiger, India will reportedly send at least six Royal Bengal tigers \u2014 two males and four females \u2014 to help re-establish the species in the Southeast Asian nation. This initiative marks the first-ever international effort to reintroduce wild tigers and echoes India\u2019s prior success with Panna Tiger Reserve, where tigers were successfully reintroduced in 2009 following local extinction.<br \/>In 2022, both nations formalised their commitment by signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU), under which India pledged to supply not only the tigers but also technical expertise and financial support for managing the reintroduction, securing habitats, and monitoring tiger populations in the Cardamom National Park in southwest Cambodia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"India, a global leader in tiger conservation, will send six big cats to the Southeast Asian nation under&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,22225,24198,2929,17672,128,283,4893,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-44004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cambodia","11":"tag-cheetah","12":"tag-conservation","13":"tag-madhya-pradesh","14":"tag-science","15":"tag-southeast-asia","16":"tag-tiger","17":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}