Tigers in Cambodia?
Forget the Tigers in Cambodia.
Tigers need big cattle (alike) animals for diner. Since the only animals like that in Cambodia are the cows & buffalos hurdled by farmers, Tigers would come close to the villages and steel the cows. That would be national news. Not to speak of a lone Cambodian (or kid) grabbed by a Tiger, even more national news.
No Tigers in Cambodia, only wild-life organizations defending their local living allowances.
Sorry to disturb your dreams.
Tigers need big cattle (alike) animals for diner. Since the only animals like that in Cambodia are the cows & buffalos hurdled by farmers, Tigers would come close to the villages and steel the cows. That would be national news. Not to speak of a lone Cambodian (or kid) grabbed by a Tiger, even more national news.
No Tigers in Cambodia, only wild-life organizations defending their local living allowances.
Sorry to disturb your dreams.
Incorrect. While I seriosly doubt there are any tigers left, there is wild cattle - Banteng, gaur and wild water buffalo. There is also deer, which I assume could be eaten as prey as well. The WWF guys in Mondulkiri regularly see Banteng and deer, the others I'm not sure of.v12 wrote:Forget the Tigers in Cambodia.
Tigers need big cattle (alike) animals for diner. Since the only animals like that in Cambodia are the cows & buffalos hurdled by farmers, Tigers would come close to the villages and steel the cows. That would be national news. Not to speak of a lone Cambodian (or kid) grabbed by a Tiger, even more national news.
No Tigers in Cambodia, only wild-life organizations defending their local living allowances.
Sorry to disturb your dreams.
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That's not true, they eat deer, monkeys, pythons, wild boars, large birds, hares or anything else they can catch.v12 wrote:Forget the Tigers in Cambodia.
Tigers need big cattle (alike) animals for diner. Since the only animals like that in Cambodia are the cows & buffalos hurdled by farmers.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
Botum Sakor has Gaur and many deer,you can be in the Cardomoms and be a long long way from any village.lots of it still cant be accessed.
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v12 wrote:Forget the Tigers in Cambodia.
Tigers need big cattle (alike) animals for diner. Since the only animals like that in Cambodia are the cows & buffalos hurdled by farmers, Tigers would come close to the villages and steel the cows. That would be national news. Not to speak of a lone Cambodian (or kid) grabbed by a Tiger, even more national news.
No Tigers in Cambodia, only wild-life organizations defending their local living allowances.
Sorry to disturb your dreams.
My colleagues and I occasionally work in places in Cambodia that are remote enough that we have to be choppered in, including in the Cardamoms. It's true that even the remotest areas have usually been selectively logged out of luxury hardwoods, but to suggest that you're never far from people, and that there is therefore no tiger habitat, and that it's all part of the great mythical NGO conspiracy, is just plain dumb. In fact I'm sure I read an article just recently about Thais illegally crossing the border and poaching tigers from the Cardamoms for sale in Thailand, but I'm too lazy to Google it.
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I might add that when we work in those areas we're typically accompanied by rangers armed with assault rifles, and even they are nervous about tigers at night in camp.
Yeah, sure.nemokyrre wrote:Incorrect.
Tigers need a lot of meat. Birds are just a snack for Virtual Tigers and most birds aren't that stupid as this one with Lions:
Stupid Heron
Even Virtual Tigers are lazy, they would prefer to steal away a cow from a village/farm-field or even some human meat, in stead of a difficult hunt for sparse bigger animals.
And yes, there are many areas in the Cardamons (and even some in Mondulkiri), pretty inaccessible for human, though there are many villages at the borders of the deserted area's, where Virtual Tigers do have a free and easy hunt for food.
When a Virtual Tiger would (try to) steal a cow or human from a village, even only once a year, that would be headline news in Cambodia.
For the believers the challenge to make Virtual Tigers real
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V12, there are still vast tracts of wilderness in Cambodia that are the sole domain of poachers, hermits and illegal loggers, in the Cardamoms and elsewhere, although it will be gone soon enough. Google Earth is your friend.v12 wrote:Yeah, sure.nemokyrre wrote:Incorrect.
I personally have no use for tigers, and am not pushing any kind of agenda, but the bottom line is that if scientists, conservationists and MOE rangers all agree that there are tigers still out there -- and it is my understanding that they do, based on camera traps and scat and a range of other evidence -- then we'd do well to give them the benefit of the doubt.
Like most other grand conspiracy theories, this tedious NGO one you subscribe to is just a convenient dumbass fallback option for people who are too lazy or too stupid to think things through for themselves. The unfortunate thing is that there's a whole bunch of legitimate criticisms to be made about NGOs, but the voices speaking out about them typically get drowned out beneath a veritable sea of stupidity.
Excellent meat for the Virtual Tigers, readily available in their presumed living habitat. Anybody attacked or even eaten ?shitegeist wrote:.... poachers, hermits and illegal loggers ...
Understanding -> Naive ?shitegeist wrote:.... it is my understanding that they do, based on camera traps and scat and a range of other evidence -- then we'd do well to give them the benefit of the doubt.
IF there would have been any pictures from the camera traps, these would have been presented, just to take away the suspicion against the NGO's and to search for more funding. Show me those pictures ....
Foot prints: Hmmm, easy to falsify.
Have a look at the Greenpeace internals. It's all about funding and how to continue their own operations. Spending more then 50% (sometime up to 90%) of the funds just on marketing of the programs is quite common.shitegeist wrote:Like most other grand conspiracy theories, this tedious NGO one you subscribe to is just a convenient dumbass fallback option for people who are too lazy or too stupid to think things through for themselves. The unfortunate thing is that there's a whole bunch of legitimate criticisms to be made about NGOs, but the voices speaking out about them typically get drowned out beneath a veritable sea of stupidity.
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It took me about 5 seconds of googling to come up with several examples of tigers caught on camera traps in Cambodia, including one from April of this year. But naturally as a conspiracy nutter you're immune from any kind of evidence or logic, so it doesn't really matter anyway.
I've got to be honest with you, the idea that hundreds of scientists and others across dozens of different agencies, institutions, govt departments and organisations worldwide would conspire to simply invent an entire population of megafauna for financial gain is some pretty crazy shit.
I've got to be honest with you, the idea that hundreds of scientists and others across dozens of different agencies, institutions, govt departments and organisations worldwide would conspire to simply invent an entire population of megafauna for financial gain is some pretty crazy shit.
Thatshitegeist wrote:It took me about 5 seconds of googling to come up with several examples of tigers caught on camera traps in Cambodia
5 second Google search results
Quite surprising what's caught on those camera traps...
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