Sumatran tigers on path to recovery.

[Vanhelsing]

This is great news as I honestly believed Sumatran tigers had little hope of recovery and would eventually go the way of the Bali and Javan tiger.With continued public education, protection zones and government concern there may be some future for these critically endangered animals. Splendid news.

The study set 123 PantheraCam camera traps over a 1,000 km2forest block located in a protection zone specially designated by the Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park Authority to improve park protection and aid in the recovery of flagship species.

Results of the camera-trap study showed a Sumatran tiger population density increase to 2.8 tigers/100 km2 (2015) from 1.6 tigers/100 km2 (2002). Furthermore, the proportion of male and female tigers recently recorded was 1: 3. "This ratio indicates that the tiger population in the National Park is in a healthy condition and breeding opportunity exists for many females within the areas we surveyed," said lead author, Wulan Pusparini, WCS Species Conservation Specialist.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/10/171023122930.htm

 

[Davita]

Co-incidentally... I'm watching Animal Planet's TV series 'Wildest Island; Kingdom' which is all about the amazing animals of the Indonesian archipelago....including the Sumatran tiger. Fascinating to know those animals got to Indonesia because Indonesia became islands due the oceans rising....and how they have developed due to their unique surroundings

 

[Anglian]

Well there aren’t supposed to be any Tigers left in Jave, but one a visit to wifeys Kampung the son took us on a site seeing tour and we went up this very high hill at the top is a radio station, for a small fee, the keeper let us in to get a better view across the plain, the station is surrounded by pine Forrest, but the keeper swears he sees a tiger at night, don’t know what he is on but I said there aren’t any but he was adamant there were, but at the last volcanic eruption near Jogja, tiger foot prints were seen in the ash, I sort of wonder if they actually had seen a leopards

 

[vocalneal]

there may be some future for these critically endangered animals. Splendid news.

Yep they are feeding on humans dragged from the cabs of heavy machinery in the forestry industry.