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Good on Thailand, they have been making a lot of effort establishing large national parks and changing a culture of poaching. This is the second Thai conservation area with a known breeding population of Indochinese tigers, of which there are less than 250 remaining.
A new breeding population of the critically endangered Indochinese tiger has been found in a national park in eastern Thailand, conservationists say. Camera traps discovered a small population with at least six cubs in the jungle.
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"The extraordinary rebound of eastern Thailand's tigers is nothing short of miraculous," said John Goodrich, tiger programme director at Panthera. The director of Thailand's national parks, Songtam Suksawang, said: "The stepping up of anti-poaching patrols and law enforcement efforts in this area have played a pivotal role in conserving the tiger population by ensuring a safe environment for them to breed.
The world should do more to protect wildlife animals and preserve their conservations. It's sad and irony to see all these nature of wonders dimishing as the world progress.
Thailand has a disgraceful record in the preservation of endangered species. All it takes is $$$$$$$$$ (or in this case baht) for a bribe and all eyes are turned away. I lived in Thailand for a while, and their efforts, while appreciated, are superficial.
The tiger population in general is growing for the first time. in 2011 there were 3,200 tigers and in 2015 there were 3,890 tigers. One of the greatest increases are in Russia, there were 331-393 tigers in 2005, and in 2015 there were 480-540 tigers, however a more detailed census revealed there were 562 tigers. This is also considering there were only about 40 tigers in the wild back in the 1940s.
honestly Thailand is one of the least respectful cultures when it comes to their wildlife. Just go visit Thailand and go to one of the many Tiger petting zoos where they chain up and drug Tigers so stupid tourists can pet then and have their pictures taken. But that's not as bad as the amount of protected species of animals that they catch and smuggle out of the country to sell on the black market
There are only between 189 to 252 living Indochinese tigers in Thailand, with another 85 in Myanmar and 20 in Vietnam.
That is a long, long way from making a "comeback". This new find, while certainly good news, only adds a few more to those numbers.
If it becomes extinct, which it is very much on the verge of, it will be the largest carnivore to do so in 10,000 years.
But let's hope anyway. A word without tigers in it is not a world I ever wanted to see...
The Indochinese tiger is a subspecies, not a species. Other subspecies of tigers have gone extinct recently - the Bali tiger, Caspian tiger and Javan tiger all went extinct in the 20th century.
Unfortunately, even the most populous subspecies of tiger - the Bengal tiger - has fewer than 3000 individuals remaining. The species won't go entirely extinct, but it may be eliminated in the wild in the next few decades, surviving then only in zoos.
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