70% of the population in Bhutan are small scale farmers.
And a large part of them are doing animal husbandry.
Like here, as you can see, I’m surrounded by yaks.
Please don’t attack me.
My camera traps and corridor eight is just there
one kilometre away from here.
So we’re right on tiger territory.
Hello. My name is Emmanuel.
Is there any problem with big cats here?
Do you know if people are sometime killing tigers
to prevent them from attacking.
If your yak is killed by a tiger
then you used to get some sort of financial compensation.
The problem is that, this specific fund was working here in Bhutan
but its been out of money for the last 4 years.
The good news is that it’s going to be put back in place.
There is a lot of problems with poaching in Bhutan.
But the situation now is improving.
Because we have more and more rangers.
We are removing a lot of snares.
So what I’m trying to do here with my camera traps
is not only to get an image of a tiger.
I’m trying to make an image that when you look at it
you immediately understand that this is a wild tiger
in its natural habitat in its forest in the Himalayas.
So that is the plan, that’s what I’m trying to do.
It’s very frustrating because
it’s been almost a month and we have nothing.
And I’m starting to be really stressed.
I can’t believed it.
I’m super happy right now.
Ok, one, two, three.
So this is how this incredible first month in Bhutan is ending.
Tomorrow, I’m leaving and going back to France because
I have another big project going on there, it’s called a baby.
We’re expecting our first baby.
I will come back here in 2 months
so I’ve left all the camera traps in the field.
Hopefully in 2 months I will have more images. I really hope so.
Thank you so much for following this adventure.
And see you in 2 months.