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Sumatran Tiger

Sumatran Tiger . General Information :. 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 : 1996

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Sumatran Tiger

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  1. Sumatran Tiger

  2. General Information: • 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: 1996 • Numbers remaining: ~350 in wild (down from 1,000 in 1980’s) Range of Sumatran tigers

  3. Physical Description • 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

  4. Sumatran Tiger’s Ecosystem • 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%) Average Temperature Precipitation

  5. Sumatran Tiger’s Niches • 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

  6. Sumatran Tiger’s Niches(Continue) • 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

  7. Past and Current Threats • Large-scale habitat loss (Deforestation): - Human cut down forests for trees to make supplies: paper, build houses and other constructions, and for farmland • Habitat fragmentation-splitting up habitat and small areas not sustainable for hunting/survival • Loss of prey not enough food for tigers

  8. 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 1992: 500 1978: 1000 1986: 650 1993: 450

  9. Conservation plan • 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

  10. 10Years 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.

  11. 10 year plan continued…… • 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)

  12. Save the Tigers!

  13. Resources • 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.asp • Sumatran Tiger Trust: • http://www.tigertrust.info/sumatran_tiger_home.asp

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