Young male tiger settles in at Westcountry zoo

PAIGNTON Zoo has welcomed Dao, a striking three-year-old male Sumatran tiger from Fota Wildlife Park in Ireland, offering visitors the rare opportunity to see one of the world’s most endangered big cats as he settles into his new Devon home.

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With fewer than 400 Sumatran tigers remaining in the wild, Dao’s arrival marks the beginning of “an exciting conservation chapter that visitors can follow” The coordinated exchange with Ireland represents a strategic step in the European breeding programme for the critically endangered species, with every pairing “carefully planned to maximise genetic diversit