Tiger killed after attack in Kayin State



YANGON: -- A tiger was killed on Saturday in Kayin State after it attacked and injured two fishermen, the Myanmar Times reported.

The two men were attacked early Saturday by a 3.2-metre long tiger in Yelal Kone village in Kawkareik township, Kayin State, according the Ministry of Information. Both victims were treated in Kawkareik hospital.

Following the attack, the military and local authorities started a hunt for the tiger and it was killed about 11:30am.

U Win Naing Thaw, director of the Nature and Wildlife Conservation division of the Ministry of Environmental Conservation and Forestry, said that the tiger was killed for the safety of the public and not for trading.

U Saw Htoo Tha Po, a coordinator of the Wildlife Conservation Society Myanmar, said that deforestation and environmental degradation lead to clashes between humans and wild animals.

He said human activities, like illegal logging, interrupt tigers living alone in their area and then the animal approaches human areas. The death of this tiger is a loss for the ecosystem, he added.

According to a press release from the Forestry Department, in August 2011 an estimated 100 to 150 tigers were left in Myanmar territory. Among them, 50 to 80 tigers live in Hukaung Valley Tiger Reserve in Kachin State and 10 to 15 tigers are thought to live in the Htamanthi conservation area in Sagaing Region. A tiger population of 25 to 30 remains in Tanintharyi Nature Reserve.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/content/152809

-- Thai PBS 2016-02-29

Never get out of the boat!

Great video clip... It made me jump!

It's a pity that the beast couldn't be relocated to a fenced reserve, as there are so few left as it is... Oh well, anything with the audacity to attack a human must be hunted down and killed, it seems

A hundred years ago, that policy was acceptable (required), but in these times, with some species facing extinction, that policy should be re-evaluated

"U Saw Htoo Tha Po, a coordinator of the Wildlife Conservation Society Myanmar, said that deforestation and environmental degradation lead to clashes between humans and wild animals."

Well said !

Tigers and other large predators need big spaces in which to roam and hunt.

Better , in this case, to have sedated and relocated the animal.