Forty-five infrared cameras have been installed in Bokor National Park in southern Cambodia, in hopes of recording evidence of tigers and other endangered species.
Chay Samith, director of the conservation department at the Ministry of Environment, said the cameras will help officials get a clearer picture of what animals are in the 140,000-hectare park.
“We really want to know what the populations are, especially with tigers,” he said.
The camera traps were installed in late January in areas where tigers and their prey are believed to have passed. The sites were also chosen based on interviews with locals and paw prints, said Seng Teak, of the World Wide Fund for Nature. The cameras will be retrieved in a month.
Bokor National Park, which the government wants to develop as a tourist destination, is a rich area for scientific research, with many rare plants and animal species.
