AFP “Tigers declared extinct in Cambodia” http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/apr/06/tigers-declared-extinct-in-cambodia
WWFはカンボディアにおいて虎が実質的に絶滅したと発表した。
カンボディア政府としては虎を野生に再導入することを計画しており、近く虎を提供してもらうために、印度、マレイシア、タイなどの国と交渉を開始するという。
Cambodia’s dry forests used to be home to scores of Indochinese tigers but the WWF said intensive poaching of both tigers and their prey had devastated the numbers of the big cats.The last tiger was seen on camera trap in the eastern Mondulkiri province in 2007, it said.
“Today, there are no longer any breeding populations of tigers left in Cambodia, and they are therefore considered functionally extinct,” the conservation group said in a statement.
虎が棲息している国には既に朝鮮半島の韓国も北朝鮮もない。朝鮮半島で虎が絶滅したというのは既定の事実なのだな。では、公式に絶滅が確認されたのは何時頃だったのか*3。
Deforestation and poaching have devastated tiger numbers across Asia, with recent estimates from the International Union for Conservation of Nature*1 putting the global population at just 2,154.Countries with tiger populations - Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Russia, Thailand and Vietnam - in 2010 launched a plan to double their numbers by 2022*2.
Officials from the 13 countries are set to meet from 12-14 April in Delhi to discuss the goals.
*1:http://www.iucn.org/ See eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Union_for_Conservation_of_Nature https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%9B%BD%E9%9A%9B%E8%87%AA%E7%84%B6%E4%BF%9D%E8%AD%B7%E9%80%A3%E5%90%88
*2:See Associated Press “Thirteen countries meet in bid to save wild tiger” http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/jan/27/global-tiger-summit
*3:See also http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20100129/1264736175
