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The island of Sumatra is the only place where tigers, rhinos, orangutans, and elephants live together in the wild. The presence of the Sunda tiger is an important indicator of a forest's health and biodiversity. Protecting tigers and their habitat means many other species benefit—including people.
The Sumatran tiger is a population of Panthera tigris sondaica on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. [1] [2] It is the only surviving tiger population in the Sunda Islands, where the Bali and Javan tigers are extinct. [3]
What is the Sumatran tiger? The Sumatran tiger is a subspecies of tiger native to the Indonesian island of Sumatra. It’s the smallest of the tigers, possibly because it evolved on an...
The Sumatran tiger is a population of the Sunda Island tiger subspecies found exclusively on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. With only 600 individuals remaining in the wild, Sumatran tigers are elusive animals that conservationists are desperately trying to protect.
The Sumatran tiger is a population of Sunda Island tiger (Panthera tigris sondaica) on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. This is the only surviving tiger population in the Sunda Islands, where the Bali and Javan tigers are extinct.
The Sumatran tiger is endemic to the tropical island of Sumatra, the largest island in Indonesia’s Sunda Island chain. Sumatra’s dense but disappearing forests provide the critically endangered Sumatran tiger its last wild shelter.
Sumatran tigers (Panthera tigris sumatrae) are on the brink of extinction due to habitat destruction, human-tiger conflict, and poaching. They once roamed throughout the Sunda Islands in Western Indonesia, however now only a few remain on the island of Sumatra.
