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Sign to Save Sumatra‘s Tigers

The Bukit Tigapuluh forest landscape in Jambi and Riau provinces of Sumatra, also known as “Thirty Hills,” is one of the most important habitats of the critically endangered Sumatran tiger. Recently, WWF video and camera traps have recorded the presence of 12 tigers, including two mothers and their cubs, in the forests outside Bukit Tigapuluh National Park. Sadly, the area is under imminent threat of being cleared by pulp and paper companies and illegal palm oil growers.

The Bukit Tigapuluh landscape is also critical to the survival of forest-dwelling indigenous people, the Suku Talang Mamak and Orang Rimba, who have been living there for centuries. Many other endangered species, including orangutans and elephants, also depend on the forest there.

As one of only 20 “global priority Tiger Conservation Landscapes”—so designated because they offer the highest probability of persistence of tiger populations over the long term—the Bukit Tigapulah landscape contains one of the broadest collections of Sumatran megafauna and flora. Yet of the approximately 320,000 hectares of natural forest in the landscape, only 135,000 hectares are protected in the Bukit Tigapuluh National Park. The area outside the national park including where the tigers were documented on video are threatened, mostly by industrial plantations, illegal encroachment and palm oil development.

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All Activists: Sign on to Save Sumatra’s Tigers | World Wildlife Fund

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Please sign our petition to the Indonesian government, urging the protection of the remaining forests of the Bukit Tigapuluh landscape from industrial logging – home to critically important Sumatran tiger habitat.

The Killing of a Sumatran Tiger…………………………:(

 

WARNING – EXTREME GRAPHIC

SPCF 13 January 2013 found a Sumatran Tigress, caught in a poachers snare. Unfortunately she did not make it….
A Male Sumatran Tiger also caught in a poachers snare in a different area…died on route to being treated………..tragic……………….Greatcatsofthe”World”

 

Amur, Malayan, and Sumatran tigers are each thought to number fewer than 500 in the wild

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Amur, Malayan, and Sumatran tigers are each thought to number fewer than 500 in the wild, but you can help. This holiday season we have a challenge for you! Help us raise $500 for each of these endangered tigers by the end of the month! For yourself or as a gift, make your holiday complete with a donation to the Tiger Conservation Campaign and make a difference for wild tigers. Learn more and donate today: www.mnzoo.org/tigerssp/campaign.

 

Graphic Image – A Sumatran tiger trapped by tiger poachers in Muko-Muko, Bengkulu province, Indonesia.

Anthony Marr II

This is heartbreaking. Cruelty aside, the Sumatran tiger is on the verge of extinction. These poachers should be penalized in exactly the same way as shown in this picture.

A Sumatran tiger trapped by tiger poachers in Muko-Muko, Bengkulu province, Indonesia. Conservationists have found 120 traps set up by poachers to snare critically endangered Sumatran tiger in Kerinci Seblat National Park.

 

Indonesia’s Sumatran tigers face extinction due to illegal hunting

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16:31, November 21, 2012

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JAKARTA, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) — An official at an Indonesia‘s tiger conservancy area said that the population of the Sumatran Tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae) in the Kerinci Seblat National Park (TNKS) in Indonesia’s Jambi province has been dwindling due to rampant illegal hunting, local media reported on Wednesday.

The population in the park had declined from 300 to 165 in the last decade, TNKS official Dian Rusdianto said.

Dian said that illegal hunting and poaching were still rampant in the area and TNKS officers recently confiscated 120 tiger traps set by hunters around the park.

“The diminishing population isn’t only caused by hunting and poaching, but also forest destruction by corporations which have damaged the park,” she said on Tuesday.

The forest damage does not only pose a threat to the habitat of the Sumatran tiger, but also other animals which the tigers prey on such as deer, tapir and warthog, according to her. The park has been running conservation programs, making routine inspections on tiger traps and protecting the tiger’s habitat, Dian said.

The park also tried to conserve the habitats of other animals living there, she added.

“The ones that need to be protected are animals which the tigers prey on because they can survive in any conditions as long as they have food all the time,” Dian said.

The Sumatran tiger is the last tiger species in Indonesia. Two other tiger species, namely the Bali and Java tigers, have been extinct since the 1950s and 1960s, respectively, the Jakarta Post reported.

Based on the Borner study, which took place in 1978, the Sumatran tiger population was estimated at 1,000 in the 1970s. In 1985, its population dwindled to 800 in 26 protected forest areas. Its current population is estimated to hover in the range of 500.

 

Lingering deadly fate of the Sumatran tiger

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | National | Tue, November 20 2012, 5:26 PM

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In spite of its status as a critically endangered species on the verge of extinction, the population of the Sumatran Tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae) in the Kerinci Seblat National Park (TNKS) in Jambi has been dwindling due to rampant illegal hunting.

The population in the park had declined from 300 to 165 in 10 years, TNKS official Dian Rusdianto said on Tuesday as quoted by tempo.co.

Dian said that illegal hunting and poaching were still rampant in the area and TNKS officers recently confiscated 120 tiger traps set by hunters around the park.

“The diminishing population isn’t only caused by hunting and poaching, but also forest destruction by corporations which have damaged the park,” she said.

The forest damage does not only pose a threat to the habitat of the Sumatran tiger, but also other animals which the tigers prey on such as deer, tapir and warthog, according to her.

The park has been running conservation programs, making routine inspections on tiger traps and protecting the tiger’s habitat, Dian said.

The park also tried to conserve the habitats of other animals living there, she added.

“The ones that need to be protected are animals which the tigers prey on because they can survive in any conditions as long as they have food all the time,” Dian said.

The Sumatran tiger is the last tiger species in Indonesia. Two other tiger species, namely the Bali and Java tigers, have been extinct since the 1950s and 1960s, respectively.

Based on the Borner study, which took place in 1978, the Sumatran tiger population was estimated at 1,000 in the 1970s. In 1985, its population dwindled to 800 in 26 protected forest areas.

Its current population is estimated to hover in the range of 500. (han)

 

EYES ON LEUSER september 2012

 

 

Published on Sep 21, 2012 by eyesonleuser

 

Great Cats of the “World”- This video shows several species of wildlife filmed in the mountains of the Leuser Ecosystem in Sumatra, Indonesia…
Once you get about 5 mins in you will start to see their beautiful Cat Species including the Beautiful close up of the Sumatran Tiger who tries to destroy the camera ……………Just beautiful to watch all this Wildlife. God keep them safe xoxo