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Haray Sam Munthe and Namanya Anto dedicate their time in researching and protection of the Sumatran tiger in North Sumatra Indonesia.
Tigers Angels has an on going tiger protection program with Sumatran Tiger Rangers
We currently have 10 tiger camera traps set up in a undiscovered rain forest in North Sumatra.
Our ongoing tiger conservation programs are always looking for support to help people like Haray and Anto continue their conservation efforts.
Our website www.tigersangels.com offers people the opportunity to help support tiger conservation.

There are now believed to be only two viable populations of Sumatran tigers in the wild after a year-long survey found the tigers’ habitat is still being cleared for industries like palm oil.

Scientists estimate that the number of critically endangered tigers remaining is down to 618 as of 2012, a reduction of more than 16 per cent on estimates since 2000.

But critically, they say in a paper published in Nature Communications today, land clearing has fragmented many of those tigers into small, isolated groups that will not be able to survive long term.

With only two of the groups containing more than 30 breeding females, the risk of extinction of the Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae) is greater than ever, said the study’s lead author Matthew Luskin.
According to Dr Campbell, the conservation status of forests can be downgraded after they have been logged, giving industry a foothold to begin development.

“It’s bigger, larger, richer companies coming in, and they’re often — I’m trying to put this politely — intricately linked with the local government officials who’ve approved those roads,” he said.

“Once it’s a production area it’s a bit of a free-for-all for palm oil companies.”

Although the researchers found an overall decline in Sumatran tiger numbers, they were encouraged to find that tiger population density had increased in areas that remained untouched.

“The results are a mixed bag for tigers,” Dr Luskin said.The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) publishes a yearly updated scorecard that rates companies’ use of palm oil.

Whilst some retailers like Coles and Woolworths scored highly in 2017, a number of big brand names refused to share their data.

Tiger density has increased in undisturbed areas of Sumatra

On March 12th an Indonesian man has been mauled to death by a Sumatran tiger in a remote village, authorities said Sunday, the second deadly attack this year.
Yusri Effendi, 34, was found with fatal wounds to his neck by workmates and local villagers in Riau province on Sumatra island on Saturday evening, the local conservation agency said.The victim was working on a building to lure the edible-nest swiftlet in Tanjung Simpang village when the tiger began lurking around the construction site.

Several hours after first seeing the big cat, Effendi and his three workmates — thinking the coast was clear — made a dash for safety, only to come face-to-face with the animal a short distance away.ffendi’s colleagues, who all survived the incident, told authorities they scattered to evade the animal, but the victim was not so lucky.

A search party found the victim unconscious at the edge of a river a short time later, authorities said.

“[When] they opened his clothes they saw a gaping wound on his neck,” the Riau conservation agency said in a statement.

Human-animal conflicts are common across the vast Indonesian archipelago, especially in areas where the clearing of rainforest to make way for palm oil plantations is destroying animals’ habitats and bringing them into closer contact with people.

Earlier this month, locals from Hatupangan village in North Sumatra disemboweled a Sumatran tiger and then hung the big cat from a ceiling after it attacked a pair of villagers.

Sumatran tigers are considered critically endangered by protection group the International Union for Conservation of Nature, with 400 to 500 remaining in the wild.

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Wow after climbing through thick unexplored rainforests of North Sumatra. We managed to set up 9 wildlife camera traps to see if there were any Sumatran tigers roaming in this neck of the woods. The trekking through virgin unexplored areas that took over five days to explore was virtually only  1% of the forests total land mass area. This is considered hidden from the rest of the world. No mention of it in any Indonesian maps not even on google maps, in fact the area has no name, its a hidden rainforests with a big secret shhhhhhh until now ! Don’t tell anyone that we have evidence that one of the rarest and one of the most critically endangered species in the world had its first ever picture taken. The ever elusive, striking and very very rare Sumatran tiger walked straight past our camera trap at night, right where we had set up our camping tents only weeks earlier. No one in the world ever knew tigers existed in this area. Probably because the forest is hidden and its been that way for thousands of years. Only the local villages know the secrets of this forest. Its 10 hours drive from any major city and to get to the local town its 3 hours drive on a roads that would test any Jeep or Range Rover followed by a canoe ride upstream for 2 hours then 1 days trekking and thats to get to the forest. No wonder its hidden!

We are thrilled to be sent this picture (thank you Haray local tiger ranger) as evidence that the Sumatran tiger lives and thrives in this part of the forests and we cant wait to see what the other cameras will reveal once we have gone back in and checked all of them.That will be another epic trip and lots of blood sweat and tears again.

This rainforest has so much unexplored areas yet to be discovered and maybe its best we keep it that way. We are passionate about protecting these last bits of virgin habitat. Its so important for tigers to have a forest like this for them to survive as a species. Hopefully it stays this way, unexplored, as these I’m sure the tigers have enjoyed thousands of years of non human conflict and destruction of their forest they call home.