India likely to send tigers to Cambodia later this year

Officials from Cambodia, the National Tiger Conservation Authority, and the ambassador of India to Cambodia, Devyani Khobragade, participated in an online meeting a few days ago.

India is likely to send four tigers to Cambodia by November-December to help reintroduce the big cats into its forests, sources said on Friday.

New Delhi signed a pact with Phnom Penh for the world’s first transnational tiger reintroduction in November 2022.

Officials from Cambodia, the National Tiger Conservation Authority, and the ambassador of India to Cambodia, Devyani Khobragade, participated in an online meeting a few days ago. They discussed the proposal to send four tigers to Cambodia by November-December. However, a final decision is pending, a source said.

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