Khouth Sophak Chakrya | Publication date 12 April 2018 | 17:51 ICT
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An Indochinese tiger in Mondulkiri province in 2007. This is the most recent photo taken of a tiger in Cambodia. Men in Pursat province claim to have seen a tiger on Wednesday. WWF Cambodia
Five men in Roleab village in Pursat province reported having spotted a tiger at a cashew plantation on Wednesday, although experts believe the animal was actually a leopard after examining a piece of a tree branch it had bitten, officials said Thursday.
Un Ho, police chief in Roleab commune, said plantation owner Sos Brohim and four of his workers claimed to have seen the tiger at the plantation. Experts, however, remained unconvinced of the report.
“However, according to Sos Brohim [he] discovered the rare animal with his own eyes [on Wednesday morning]; the animal that he had seen was a tiger,” he said.
Chea Bunly, director of the Pursat town Forestry Administration, said when experts showed photos of wild cats to Brohim, he pointed to a tiger as the animal he had seen. But Pursat Forestry Administration officials believe the cat was a leopard based on a Thursday examination of the tree branch that was allegedly bitten by the animal.
Brohim describe the animal as having black and yellow stripes, and as having “roared terribly”, he said.
The last confirmed tiger sighting in Cambodia was in 2007, when one was captured on film by a camera trap in the Srepok Wildlife Sanctuary in Mondulkiri province, according to Seng Teak, country director for the World Wildlife Fund Cambodia.
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