For border-crossing Thai tigers, the forest on the other side isn’t as green
by Carolyn Cowan on 3 February 2021
Straddling the Myanmar-Thai border, the Dawna Tenasserim Landscape (DTL) is the intersection of four different biogeographic zones and consequently supports rich species diversity.
The ecosystem is particularly important for the survival of Southeast Asia’s big cats, including the Indochinese tiger.
Large, wide-ranging species like tigers require connected networks of forests to move and disperse through; the species cannot thrive in isolated pockets of protected forest.
Efforts to protect tigers in the DTL highlight the need for cross-border efforts to maintain ecosystem connectivity.