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Young male tiger settles in at Westcountry zoo
Western Morning News (Saturday)
|August 09, 2025
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
This story is from the August 09, 2025 edition of Western Morning News (Saturday).
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