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"KANCHANABURI, Thailand — Following the path of the tiger isn’t easy. Yet the
three rangers, clad in camouflage, move lithely through the steep bamboo
thicket, tracking the muddy hoofprints of a sambar deer. Out of the snagging
vines, they emerge on a forested ridgeline overlooking a landscape that swells
and shrinks in watercolor hues of indigo. A breeze rustles the stone oak trees
as the sound of grasshoppers pierces the silence. It’s easy to imagine the
tiger slinking confidently across this terrain, the master of its Thai kingdom.
Another 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) down the ridge, the rangers stop in a small
clearing. Members of Panthera, a wildcat conservation NGO, pull out a toolkit
to check two camera traps. It was here, in early 2024, that a camera picked up
a female Indochinese tiger (
Panthera tigris corbetti) moving through this
protected corridor known as Si Sawat. She had never been detected in any other
protected area. Maybe, they say, the tiger will have returned in the past three
months.
But the camera’s memory card reveals only smaller species: a leopard cat
(
Prionailurus bengalensis) and an Asian golden cat (
Catopuma temminckii),
as well as a porcupine (
Hystrix brachyura) and a pig-tailed macaque (
Macaca
leonina). Still, the team is in good spirits. Hopefully, they say, the tiger
has taken up residency to the south, in Salakpra Wildlife Sanctuary. After all,
this swath of forest is too small to support a large tiger population — maybe
four, at best. Yet as a corridor, cutting through the hills of Kanchanaburi
province, it can help to funnel cats into more suitable habitats, forging a
pathway of hope for the imperiled species."
Via
Reasons to be Cheerful:
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https://reasonstobecheerful.world/what-were-reading-wild-oyster-comeback/>
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
