Rare Sumatran tiger caught after killing 3 people in Indonesia+
February 13th, 2009 | by Indonesia News |JAKARTA, Feb. 12 (AP) – (Kyodo)?A rare Sumatran tiger has been caught in Indonesia’s Jambi Province after having killed three people and seriously wounded two others in recent weeks, a conservation officer said Thursday.
“We caught the ’serial killer’ tiger in order not only to calm down local people, but also to save the life of the tiger from the threat of poachers who have been arriving here,” Didy Muryanto, the head of Jambi Natural Conservation Agency, told Kyodo News.
“On Wednesday night, the tiger was caught after it came to a trap, an iron cage with a goat inside. Now we’ve put it in a local zoo in the city of Jambi,” he said.
The tiger, a 7-year-old female measuring 2 meters in length and 1 meter in height, attacked villagers in Muaro Jambi regency who had cleared the land in protected forest near their villages for farming.
“Sorry to say, that all tiger victims were illegal farmers in the protected forest. The tiger attacked them because it was threatened by the presence of humans in its natural habitat,” the officer said.
The Sumatran tiger, found only on the island of Sumatra, is a critically endangered species, with no more than 500 individuals thought to remain in the wild.
The tigers normally avoid humans but attacks do occur from time to time as their forest habitat continues to shrink and fragment due to human encroachment, including conversion of forest areas into palm oil plantations.
The Sumatran tiger is the smallest of the six surviving subspecies of tiger. Its relatives, the Bali and Javan tigers, became extinct decades ago.
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