Transcript Sumatran Tiger

 Scientific Name: Panthera Tigris
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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
 Weight: - Male: 110- 140 kg( 220- 310 lbs.)
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-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
 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
 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
 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
 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
 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
 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
 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.
 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)
 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_his
torySumatranTiger.asp
 Sumatran Tiger Trust:
 http://www.tigertrust.info/sumatran_tiger_home.asp