Open a new family photo “Tiger” Three mothers and children were captured by an automatic camera trap. First appearance of Salakpra Wildlife Sanctuary
Facebook public relations Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Post a picture with the caption: “Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation by Salak Phra Wildlife Sanctuary Panthera Organization Southeast Asia and South Asia and Faculty of Forestry Kasetsart University Install automatic camera traps for long-term monitoring of the tiger population. In Salakpra Wildlife Sanctuary
The said camera installation point has been installed since the beginning of 2023 until present. and from examining data from automatic camera traps Three tigers were photographed, one of which was an adult female, which is in the tiger database with code TWT128F, which is the mother tiger. and 2 Boy Scouts (code given as SLT_Unknown003 and SLT_Unknown004)
Before this incident, the tiger TWT128F was photographed on August 3, 2023 at 10:03 a.m. and on August 8, 2023 at 11:38 p.m. In addition, the aforementioned camera location had also previously photographed a tiger. Adult male, code HKT270M, 3 events, including 20 April 2023 at 6:04 p.m., 6 July 2023 at 3:00 a.m., and 13 June 2023 at 3:11 a.m.
This incident is the first time at Salakpra Wildlife Sanctuary that tiger cubs have been captured by automatic camera traps. and points out the potential of the area in terms of the abundance of prey animals and the conditions of forest areas that are conducive to the breeding of tigers.
In addition, from the installation of automatic camera traps by the survey team at more than 420 points in 7 protected areas of the southern forest group of the western forest. To survey the population of tigers and wild cats, including prey animals. It was also found that the tiger population in the survey area tends to increase. In particular, the tiger was first photographed in this area. This is the first successful step in efforts to promote this forest. This is another hope for restoring the tiger population in the future. By animals from the wild cat family There were a total of 6 species found in the area: tiger, leopard, clouded leopard, marbled cat, fire tiger, and leopard cat.”
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