{"id":23765,"date":"2017-10-24T14:14:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T07:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/?p=23765"},"modified":"2024-07-25T14:16:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T07:16:42","slug":"conservation-story-1-behind-the-lens-seeing-stripes-in-the-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/news\/industry-news\/conservation-story-1-behind-the-lens-seeing-stripes-in-the-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservation Story 1: Behind the Lens: Seeing Stripes In The\u00a0Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"23765\" class=\"elementor elementor-23765\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-b8707f2 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default tm-col-stretched-none tm-bg-color-over-image\" data-id=\"b8707f2\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f700ded tm-bg-color-over-image\" data-id=\"f700ded\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2fb0465 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2fb0465\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.13.3 - 22-05-2023 *\/\r\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<h3><b>Conservation Story 1: Behind the Lens: Seeing Stripes In The&nbsp;<\/b><b>Forest&nbsp;<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">24 Oct 2017 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Conservation Story 1: Behind the Lens: Seeing Stripes In The Forest&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The field staff hike for a full day &#8211; sometimes more than a week &#8211; to retrieve traps from where they last left them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/tiger.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"322\" height=\"232\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">naturepl.com\/Anup Shah \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.wwf.org.uk\/adoption\/virtual-tiger\/?pc=AQF407096\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WWF<\/a>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In remote locations deep inside the forests, traps are set up carefully by field teams with the intention to capture tigers. But these traps will not harm them at all. They are camera traps <\/span><b>\u2013 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hidden cameras set up by field teams to help them monitor and understand tigers and other wildlife.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In recent months, these secretive camera traps have captured some of the most candid selfies and impressive &#8220;jump shots&#8221;!&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>WHAT&#8217;S IN A SCRATCH?&nbsp;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An amazing discovery was made after cross-checking and analyzing data collected from a network of camera traps, which WWF began implementing in the northeast of China since 2010. These cameras are a critical part of China&#8217;s national efforts to understand and protect the Amur tigers living in the northeast region. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thanks to the support of the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation in the development of strategic plans to conserve Amur tiger and leopard in China, field research teams were able to capture through camera trap, this video of a male adult tiger leaping and clawing at a tree was captured on 21 May 2017, in Hunchun Municipal Forestry Bureau, in the Jilin province of northeastern China.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;This video is a great motivation to our team in the camera monitoring initiative,&#8221; said Jiang Jongsong, the lead facilitator of the camera trap monitoring network in Jilin province.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is only the second time since this tiger &#8211; identified as T24 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">has been captured on Jilin&#8217;s camera trap database. It was first recorded in November 2015 in another area of the forest, providing an important clue into how wild tigers require vast spaces in their habitat in order to migrate and establish new territories.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Such a behaviour shows the tiger marking <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">its <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">territory and indicates that it is thriving in this area,&#8221; Jiang added.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Nearly two years of settlement of this male tiger is very important for establishing a new breeding tiger population cohabitating 1-2 adult females with breeding signs in the Sandaogou-Erdaogou- Heshan-Dahuanggou area,&#8221; said Chang Youde, Amur tiger population monitoring manager of WWF Northeast Programme Office.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>MEANWHILE<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>IN THE SWELTERING TROPICAL FORESTS OF SOUTHEAST ASIA&#8230;&nbsp;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Six newborn tiger cubs were discovered through camera trap footage in the Mae Wong and Khlong Lan National Parks &#8211; an exciting discovery for Thailand! <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Southeast Asia, where tigers easily disappear into the lush undergrowth, camera traps are the best lens that can help provide a clearer peek into understanding their population.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Led by Department of National Parks, Wildlife, and Plant Conservation and supported by WWF- Thailand, this camera trap survey involved 164 camera traps at 82 sites within the parks.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;This is exciting news that further confirms Thailand&#8217;s status as a leading tiger range state and Mae Wong and Klong Lan National Parks as critical sites for tiger recovery in Southeast Asia,&#8221; said Rungnapa Phoonjampa, WWF-Thailand Mae Wong and Khlong Lan Project Manager.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The results from the camera trap photos and videos revealed a hopeful trend. Apart from an increase of 25% in adult female tiger numbers, tiger cub numbers have also doubled since the last survey! Additionally, leopard and dhole (Asiatic wild dog) populations were found to have increased by 9% and 16% respectively since 2014 &#8211; indicating progress in the protection and management of this landscape.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are also able to assess threats better by studying where wild animals roam through these photos and videos.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;We remain very concerned about the proposed Mae Wong Dam as it will do incredible damage to this tiger habitat and threaten the entire ecosystem. Two of the tigers in this survey were photographed in the area that will be submerged by the dam.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Help us safeguard the precious homes of these wild tigers &#8211; share this now to show why these places need <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to <\/span><b>be protected!&nbsp;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Please also read here&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/news\/industry-news\/conservation-story-2-5-roaring-wins-last-year-and-what-this-means-for-tigers-in-2018\/\">Conservation Story 2<\/a>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservation Story 1: Behind the Lens: Seeing Stripes In The&nbsp;Forest&nbsp; 24 Oct 2017 Conservation Story 1: Behind the Lens: Seeing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/tiger.jpg",322,232,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/tiger.jpg",322,232,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/tiger.jpg",322,232,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/tiger-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/tiger-300x216.jpg",300,216,true],"large":["https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/tiger.jpg",322,232,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/tiger.jpg",322,232,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/tiger.jpg",322,232,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/tiger.jpg",322,232,false],"logixs_wp_thumbnail_height":["https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/tiger.jpg",322,232,false],"logixs_wp_thumbnail_height_400":["https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/tiger.jpg",322,232,false],"logixs_wp_square":["https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/tiger.jpg",322,232,false],"logixs_wp_landscape":["https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/tiger.jpg",322,232,false],"logixs_wp_portrait":["https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/tiger.jpg",322,232,false],"logixs_wp_huge_square":["https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/tiger.jpg",322,232,false],"logixs_wp_square_150":["https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/tiger-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"logixs_wp_small_height":["https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/tiger-150x180.jpg",150,180,true],"qi_addons_for_elementor_image_size_square":["https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/tiger.jpg",322,232,false],"qi_addons_for_elementor_image_size_landscape":["https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/tiger.jpg",322,232,false],"qi_addons_for_elementor_image_size_portrait":["https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/tiger.jpg",322,232,false],"qi_addons_for_elementor_image_size_huge-square":["https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/tiger.jpg",322,232,false]},"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"atadmin","author_link":"https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/author\/atadmin\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/category\/news\/industry-news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Industry News<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Conservation Story 1: Behind the Lens: Seeing Stripes In The&nbsp;Forest&nbsp; 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