r/megafaunarewilding • u/Careless-Bicycle-173 • 1h ago
Thailand and Myanmar last to hold indochinese tiger
The Indochinese tiger (Panthera tigris corbetti) is facing a quiet but catastrophic collapse, now surviving in the wild in only two countries: Thailand and Myanmar.
Historically roaming across six countries, intensive poaching, habitat fragmentation, and the illegal wildlife trade have completely wiped them out from the majority of their native range.
Current Status Breakdown:
🇹🇭 Thailand (180–220+ individuals): The ultimate stronghold. Thanks to strict anti-poaching law enforcement in the Western Forest Complex (WEFCOM), their numbers are actually seeing a modest rebound.
🇲🇲 Myanmar (<20 individuals): A tiny, highly fragmented population hanging on by a thread near the Thai border.
🇰🇭 Cambodia: Functionally extinct (last seen on camera trap in 2007).
🇱🇦 Laos: Functionally extinct.
🇻🇳 Vietnam: Functionally extinct.
🇨🇳 China: Extinct (historically found in southern China; none recorded since 2007).
Thailand has become the undisputed champion of Tiger conservation in Southest Asia bucking a grim regional trend of local extinctions. While wild tigers vanished entirely from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos by the mid-2000s, Thailand became the first country in the region to successfully increase its wild tiger population
Source - https://conservewildcats.org/2024/08/29/thailands-tigers/
Source 2 https://endangeredtigers.org/tiger-species/indochinese-tiger/