Tiger missing a leg needs help, says wildlife group


Struggling to survive: I-Douan the three-legged tiger walking through the jungle in the Khao Laem National Park in Kanchanaburi province. — AP

FOREST rangers in western Thailand are searching a remote jungle on the Myanmar border hoping to rescue a wild tiger with a missing leg from an area where poachers have recently been operating.

Staff from the wildlife protection group Freeland spotted the animal earlier this week on video recorded by a remotely operated camera trap in Kanchanaburi province’s Khao Laem National Park as it was feeding on a water buffalo carcass.

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