A national park in Thailand does not have one but three reasons to celebrate after having confirmed that a rare Bengal Tiger raises a trio of cubs in the protected area.
Park Rangers spotted only one little with his mother on a camera trap last year in Kaeng Krachan National Park, about 80 miles southwest of Bangkok.
But Additional imagesRecovered only this week from damaged cameras by heavy rains last year, confirmed that the litter was three shapes.
Kaeng Krachan National Park
“This is the first time that we have recorded a tiger by raising three tits in the National Park,” Kaeng Kaeng Kaend Kaend Kaeng Kaend.
“We could not recover the images this week that our camera was damaged due to the rain last year.”
The images of the camera trap show the three cubs that slip into a forest while their mother lurks.
The video of the feline family captured in July was Published by the National Park On his Facebook page on Wednesday.
“Based on the calendar, we believe that Cubs are now about six months old,” said Mongkol.
The park later Announced on social networks That he launched a competition to name the three cubs, with prices offered to people who submit the winning entries.
Six adult Bengal Tigers are currently living in Kaeng Krachan National Park – a UNESCO World Heritage Site distributed over mountains densely wooded along the border with Myanmar – two men, two women and two whose sex is unknown.
The observations of the Bengal Tiger are rare.
However, the park officials spotted another Bengal Tiger in Kui Buri National Park, south of the capital Bangkok, earlier this year. It was the animal’s first observation in this park in a decade, according to Thai authorities.
The chief of the Park Atthapong Pao-on said at Bangkok Post that the tiger was spotted after the teams installed wildlife cameras to monitor the area.
“Bengal tigers are not only powerful predators, but they are also the indicator of the abundance of nature,” he told post.
Thailand has one of the rare populations of reproduction of Bengal Tigers, who roam a handful of countries, including India, Nepal, Russia and Bhutan.
Bengal tigers are listed as in the process of disappearing on the International Union for the Conservation of the Red List of Nature (IUCN) of endangered species due to hunting and trafficking in wildlife.
Today, it is estimated that around 4,500 would not remain so, according to the IUCN.
Conservation successes have increased the populations of Bengal Tigers in India and Nepal in recent years.
