Tigers 'functionally extinct' in Cambodia
Poaching and habitat loss have prompted a 97 per cent decline in the tiger population in the past 100 years.
Conservationists have declared tigers 'functionally extinct' in Cambodia, as there are no longer any breeding populations left in the wild.
WWF Cambodia says the last tiger was seen in 2007 on camera trap in the eastern Mondulkiri province.
'Today there are no longer any breeding populations of wild tigers in Cambodia and the species in considered functionally extinct,' the conservation group said in a statement.
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Poaching and habitat loss have prompted a 97 per cent decline in the tiger population in the past 100 years, according to WWF.
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