Sumatran Tiger

Scientific Name: Panthera Tigris Sumatrae

Common Name: Sumatran Tiger

Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Continent/Country origin

from: Asia/ Indonesia Year added to Endangered

Species List: 1996Numbers remaining: ~350

in wild (down from 1,000 in 1980’s)

General Information:

Range of Sumatran tigers

Weight: - Male: 110- 140 kg( 220- 310 lbs.) -Female: 75- 110 kg(170- 240 lbs.)

Height : Up to 60 cm (1.9 feet)Length : Up to 250 cm (8.2 feet)Skin : Have heavy black stripes on its orange coat Life Span: 10-15 in wild; 20 in captivity

Physical Description

Habitat: - island of Sumatra in Indonesia - Remain patches of forest, and also in rivers Biomes:

- Tropical Broadleaf Evergreen - Peat Swamp - Freshwater Swamp Forest - Most important: Rainforests: Climate- Hot and wet year round, high humidity(averaging about 80%)

Sumatran Tiger’s Ecosystem

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Role in food web: - They eat other mammals: deer , rabbits, boars, badgers, and wild cattle - Carnivores= 2nd, 3rd, 4th level consumer - hunt at night-hide in push then jump out on its prey - Top of the food web

Reproduction: - Breed during winter season - Gave birth to 2-4 blind cubs about 103 days later - Sexually mature: Male -4 years olds Female- in 3 years olds

Sumatran Tiger’s Niches

Its effect on its ecosystem: - Keep population of deer, wild boars, and guar in check - Without tigers theses prey species would expand ravage on theirs food sources- vegetation smaller insects would not survive these insects will eat crops vital food could be lost to human

Sumatran Tiger’s Niches (Continue)

Large-scale habitat loss (Deforestation): - Human cut down forests for trees to make supplies: paper, build houses and other constructions, and for farmlandHabitat fragmentation-splitting up habitat

and small areas not sustainable for hunting/survival

Loss of prey not enough food for tigers

Past and Current Threats

Conflict with human: - Habitat loss = move to other place for food = troubles with humans because wandering into villages

Illegal trading: Overhunting - National-through black market, as well as international - Trade bone, fur, and skin for money - Chinese herb uses parts of the Sumatran Tiger for medicine sell tiger cubs for money

Past and Current Threats

1978: 1000

1986: 650

1992: 500

1993: 450

Previous Effort/Current Effort: - WWF -Tiger Protection Unit patrol helps keeping forests safe by removing poachers’ traps and snares - Educate people how to live with tiger - Help tiger to have a protected area: Tesso Nilo in 2004 - In 201o, added 6 priority landscapes to the National Tiger Recovery Program - Identify corridors that needed protection by using camera traps to figure out the distribution as well as habitat

Conservation plan

For the first year, the government should make more laws that make transportation of tiger become harder. - By air, sea, or land

Then for the next three years, put undercover cop in some of the black markets to find who is trading the tigers - Stop the process at its start

For the next 3 years, we should adopt more Sumatran tigers to the zoo - Established the captive breeding program - Create the best condition to help the tiger to have exponential growth - Later on, return them to the wild.

10 Years Plan:

For the last 3 years, we have to keep watching, and recording the population of the tiger to make sure that they are not decreasing - Helps family who has been living depending on selling tigers so they’re not going to hunt tigers again

- If they continue to do it, raise the fine that they will be charged if they get caught( go to jail possible)

10 year plan continued……

Save the Tigers!

WWF:http://worldwildlife.org/species/sumatran-tiger

IUNC red List:http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/15966/0

Tiger Facts:http://www.tigers.ca/Tigerworld/W3A1.html

Minnesota Zoo:http://www.mnzoo.com/conservation/

conservation_historySumatranTiger.aspSumatran Tiger Trust:

http://www.tigertrust.info/sumatran_tiger_home.asp

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