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Helping
BIG

CATS

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“Big cats” is the name for tigers,

lions, leopards, and jaguars.

The “big cats” need our help. A tiger in the forest at night
in Sumatra, Indonesia
www.english0905.com Number of wild tigers in the world: Tigers in Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Park, Thailand:

Helping tigers
Tigers

in 1900 –
20
100,000
in 1980 –
89
in 2021 –
in 2023 –
5,574
Tigers live in many places in Asia—from very cold
Saksit Simcharoen works at the Huai Kha Khaeng
mountains in the Himalayas to very hot areas. They
usually live in places without people, but people
for tigers. Saksit goes into the forest at night. He
doesn’t see many tigers, but the park has about 200
sometimes move into forest areas with tigers. Wildlife Park in Thailand. The park is a very good place
Tigers eat other animals. They usually kill wild cameras. They can take photos of tigers. Saksit checks
animals, but they sometimes kill domestic animals. the cameras. About 20 of the tigers in the park have
Tigers need our help because local people move radio collars. Every month, Saksit writes a report about
into their areas and they sometimes kill the tigers. the tigers in the area.

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domestic (adjective) /dəˈmɛstɪk/ not
a radio collar (noun) /ˈreɪdioʊ ˈkɑlər/

Saksit Simcharoen and his team
in Thailand measure and put a
radio collar on a tiger.

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