Watch an endangered tiger cub take its 1st steps outdoors A critically endangered Sumatran tiger cub took its first steps outdoors this week, a month after it was born at a London zoo there may be only a few hundred of the species left in the wild
Mitigating human-wildlife conflict to save Indonesias . . . Global Tiger Day on July 29th is an opportunity to learn more about tigers and the work the GEF supports to protect them In 2018, the Jakarta Post reported that a male Sumatran tiger had been killed with spears in Hatupangan village in North Sumatra province The tiger’s disembowelled body had been hung from the village hall’s ceiling
Meet the Sumatran Tiger – auribuzz The island of Sumatra is the only place where tigers, rhinos, orangutans, and elephants live together in the wild The presence of the Sunda tiger is an important indicator of a forest’s health and biodiversity Protecting tigers and their habitat means many other species benefit—including people To read more, click here Aurifil’s
New hope for Sumatra’s elephants and tigers as Indonesia . . . Tesso Nilo is one of the last havens of endangered Sumatran elephants and critically endangered Sumatran tigers With more than 4,000 plant species recorded so far, the forest of Tesso Nilo has the highest lowland forest plant biodiversity known to science, with many species yet to be discovered
Population Conservation Status - Tiger (Panthera tigris . . . Sparked multinational effort to save Sumatran tiger (Tilson et al 2007) 1997: "Tigers 2000" international symposium in London (Seidensticker et al 1999) 2001: Tiger estimate for India (wild tigers) Reported only 3,642 tigers remained in the wild (Chundawat, Khan, et al 2011) 2006: Global tiger estimate (wild tigers)
Tigers Cling to Survival in Sumatras Increasingly Fragmented . . . Researchers on an expedition that tracked endangered tigers through Sumatran jungles for one year have found that tigers are now clinging to survival in low-density populations The team’s findings have renewed fears about the potential for extinction of these elusive predators Tigers on neighboring islands of Java, Bali and Singapore went extinct in the 20th century, prompting new anti