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I'm sure everyone's getting pretty tired of seeing Sumatran Tigers on my photostream.......I just can't seem to help myself :)
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Endangered Sumatran tiger body parts sold openly in Indonesia
Hides and bones of endangered Sumatran tigers are sold openly in Indonesia for traditional medicines and jewelry, an environmental group said in a report published Wednesday.
The Britain-based wildlife monitoring network TRAFFIC, said tiger body parts, including canine teeth, claws, fur, whiskers and bones were on sale in 10 percent of the 326 retail outlets surveyed during 2006 in 28 cities and towns across Sumatra,
Based on the number of teeth on sale, the group estimated that 23 tigers were killed to supply the products sold by goldsmiths, souvenir and antique shops and traditional Chinese pharmacies.
The number declined the group's previous survey in 1999-2002, when estimated 52 tigers were killed.
"Sadly, the decline in availability appears to be due to the dwindling number of tigers left in the wild," said Julia Ng, TRAFFIC's program officer for South-East Asia.
All of TRAFFIC's surveys indicated that Medan, the capital of North Sumatra, and Pancur Batu, about 15 kilometres away, are the main hubs for the trade in tiger parts.
The population of the Sumatra tiger, or Panthera tigris sumatrae, is estimated to be less than 500, Ng said. It is classified as critically endangered on the IUCN-World Conservation Union's list of the world's most-threatened species.
"Successive surveys continue to show that Sumatran tigers are being sold body part by body part into extinction", said Susan Lieberman, Director of WWF International's Species Programme.
"This is an enforcement crisis," Lieberman told DPA. "If Indonesian authorities need enforcement help from the international community they should ask for it. If not, they should demonstrate they are taking enforcement seriously."
Tonny Soehartono, director for biodiversity conservation at the Indonesian ministry of forestry, said efforts were being made to deal with the illgal wildlife trade.
"We have to deal with the trade. Currently we are facing many other crucial problems which, unfortunately, are causing the decline of Sumatran Tiger populations," Soehartono said.
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono pledged a 10-year effort to protect the Sumatran tiger during last year's conference on climate change in Bali Island.
Sumatra's remaining few tigers are also under threat from rampant deforestation by the pulp and paper and palm oil industries. The report warned that "unless tackled immediately," the combined threats of habitat loss and illegal trade will be the "death knell" for Indonesian tigers. (*)
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One of the tigers had THREE cubs recently and they just started letting them out for the public to view them. They are soooooooooo cute!! Here's one of them. :)
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Hemerocallis fulva or Tiger Daylily. Each flower lasts only one day! Along side the road on the way to Fairfield Harbour, NC
This was one of my first pictures I ever posted on Flickr. I decided to try to edit it with Picnic and I wasn't happy with the results. I Fixed it and now I am re-posting it. Taken at the Calgary Zoo
Tiger im zoologisch- botanischen Garten 'Wilhelma' in Stuttgart.
Oktober 2013
Tiger in the zoological-botanical garden 'Wilhelma' in Stuttgart.
October, 2013
I spent a great day at the wild animal park with my friend, we saw 3 Tiger Cubs, 6 Cheetah cubs and lots of other cute baby animals.
The Sumatran tiger, numbering fewer than 400 individuals in the wild, is found exclusively on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, the last stronghold for tigers in Indonesia. Accelerating deforestation and rampant poaching across the Sumatran tiger's range mean that unless authorities enforce the law, this subspecies will soon follow the fate of its extinct Javan and Balinese relatives.
It is estimated that Sumatra has approximately 130,000 km2 of remaining habitat for tigers, only one-third of which has some form of protection from development and logging.
The wild Sumatran tiger population is estimated at fewer than 400 individuals.
Dutch colonists in the early 20th century report that tigers were so numerous and bold that they would enter the planters' estate house compounds.
A 1978 estimate put the population of Sumatran tigers at 1,000.
Today the wild population is estimated at fewer than 400 individuals.
Over half the population is found in the Kerinci Seblat - Bukit Barisan Selatan landscape, which stretches from Tesso Nilo in Riau to Bukit Tigapuluh, and then from Kerinci Seblat to Bukit Barisan Selatan.
Habitat for the Sumatran tiger has been drastically reduced by logging, clearing for agriculture and plantations, and settlement.
Indonesian forestry officials acknowledge that in many parts of the island, illegal timber harvesting and forest conversion are out of control.
Approximately 67,000 km² of forest was lost in Sumatra from 1985 to 1997, most of this being lowland rainforest. Moreover, the annual rate of forest loss has been increasing across Indonesia.
Today, around 130,000km² of tiger habitat remains on Sumatra, with just 42,000km² of this protected as some form of conservation area.
Even protected areas face problems. National parks have been isolated from one another through logging and forest conversion, and as a result there is little to no interchange and gene flow between the separated tiger populations.
Portrait of an Amur (Siberian) Tiger (Panthera tigris altaica), seen at Dartmoor Zoological Park in Devon, England.
The Amur tiger is the largest and heaviest subspecies of tiger, growing up to 3.5m in length and weighing about
300kg.
Amur (Siberian) tigers, whose habitat is the Russian Far East, are one of the most endangered big cats on the planet. There are only 400 Amur tigers left in the wild in Russia.
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