Humans-Tigers Conflict

Humans and Tigers Kill Each Other in Sumatra

VIVAnews - 15 Sumatran Tigers living in Riau forest deceased by virtue of being killed by humans within the last five years. In addition, the human-tiger conflict has claimed the lives of five people and injured 14.

The data was conveyed by spokesperson of World Wild Fund (WWF) of Riau, Sumantri, in Pekanbaru, Riau, on Saturday, Feb 28.

The fights involving humans and tigers have mostly taken place in Siak, Rokan Hulu, Rokan Ilir and Dumai. However, a tiger conservation area is located in Dumai. Various factors caused tigers and humans to engage in the prolonged conflicts. But the fights have been mostly concerned with the ruined tiger habitat, illegal logging, tiger hunting, forest fire as well as land-conversion (turning forest into oil palm plantation).

The said aspects have forced tigers to leave their habitat for nearby villages. In fact, each time tigers and local inhabitants were engaged in a fight, said Sumantri, local people were reluctant of killing the species in extinction.

The first reason of this is that courage is required in tiger-killing. If a trap would be set, the prepared tools should be complete. When the human-tiger conflict occurs, people do not have any preparation to set trap on the tigers.

It oftentimes happened that people will hire professional hunters to kill the tigers.

"Hunters killed trapped tigers because of the economical value of tigers' organs. Most of the trapped tigers had professional hunters as their trappers. Local inhabitants did not have courage to kill tigers," said Sumantri.

He cited that for conflicting areas in Sumatra involving humans and tigers, Riau has higher percentage than other provinces in Sumatra such as West Sumatra, Aceh, Jambi and Lampung.

Data of the Department of Forestry in 1994 showed that the current population of Sumatran Tiger is around 300-400.
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Coverage: Hafiz Hasian | Pekanbaru
Translated by: Bonardo Maulana Wahono

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