IUCN Red List: Endangered CITES Appendix I
The Indo-Chinese sub-species (Panthera tigris corbetti) is the tiger found in the Dry Forests, and possibly only just over a thousand of these remain.
Tigers in Cambodia's Dry Forests
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Tigers require dense habitats, adequate supplies of prey species (mainly deer, wild cattle, and wild pigs), and a reliable source of water. As habitats have been cleared and fragmented in the Dry Forests, tiger numbers have decreased.
Camera trapping
The most common way they are seen nowadays is through remote "camera trapping". This technique uses a remotely set-up camera that is triggered by animals moving through an infra-red beam.
In this way, cameras can be left out in the forest for long periods and capture, on film, the presence of many species of animals living in the forest. Based on estimates from camera-trapping, there are thought to be only a small number of tigers still living in the Dry Forests.
Camera trapping
The most common way they are seen nowadays is through remote "camera trapping". This technique uses a remotely set-up camera that is triggered by animals moving through an infra-red beam.
In this way, cameras can be left out in the forest for long periods and capture, on film, the presence of many species of animals living in the forest. Based on estimates from camera-trapping, there are thought to be only a small number of tigers still living in the Dry Forests.
Hunting and poaching
Hunting of tigers for sport has played a role in their historical decline. Commercial poaching for tiger body parts for Oriental medicine, and loss of habitat are the main threats facing tigers at present. Historically they have been killed for trophies, or as a perceived threat to humans and livestock.
Methods of protection
Education about the impacts of wildlife trade and alternative sources of income, better monitoring and enforcement of wildlife hunting regulations, and protection of large enough patches of the dry forests, will be the only way that the species will continue to survive in these Dry Forests. Even now, it may be too late.