Poaching in Khao Laem NP, Kanchanaburi

NN wrote:

Interestingly there's another article about poaching that also seems inaccurate. They list Bengal tigers as being poached, but I thought it was Indochinese tigers in that area? 


 

Its a complicated subject, its wrong but its not wrong at the same time :+) The following document created the issue:

repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088...quence=1&isAllowed=y

To break it down the re-assesment did away with "Corbetti" and revised it to "tigris tigris" (same as Bengal) but a study by other scientists backs the reinstatement of corbetti as a sub-species, we will have to wait until science reaches and agreeable consensus on this. I am on the side of reinstatement from my own readings on the subject. Even Wikipedia notes its an issue to be resolved. It may take a long time though, others will remember how it was years before we heard about what we thought was a certain species of langur actually being another species but the change in taxonomy was not widely known until 9 years after the genomic finding was completed.