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[Dr Panthera]

2 great news for tiger conservation:

1-Malaysia has effectively banned Sambar hunting for six years making the 1000 Malaysian Sambars fully available for the 300-350 Malaysian tigers, wild boar is not normally hunted by Muslim hunters ( the majority of Malaysians ), muntjac is plentiful so the major tiger prey base looks secure which bodes well for tigers.

2-The remote Chittagong Hills forests in Bangladesh seem to have healthy populations of sambar, gaur, and wild boar and 13 cm wide foot prints ( of tigers ) have been discovered to suggest a tiger population of about 15 adults ( M.Khan ) which is significant since there are only 2500 adult tigers left in the wild, every single tiger counts. Reply