Thanks to the decades of experience gained in the Project Tiger, India now has inked a memorandum of understanding with Cambodia “on biodiversity conservation with special focus on tiger reintroduction in Cambodia.”
Cambodia's vast expanse of contiguous forests were once home to scores of tigers, but conservationists say intensive poaching of both tigers and their prey, and logging have diminished their populations.

The last record of a tiger in the Southeast Asian kingdom was from a camera trap in 2007 and the big cats were declared “functionally extinct” in Cambodia in 2016, and is now extinct, requiring active reintroduction and reinforcement to rebuild the population. Ensuring viable conservation of tiger in Cambodia will not only transform conservation and socio-economic paradigm, but will augment India's leadership in big cats conservation beyond the borders, towards one environment and one planet philosophy of Government of India.