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2007 - a completely new exciting programme of activities and protection and we need you to help us continue to make it the most successful Tiger Protection Programme as it has been for the past 10 years, With the most experienced Tiger Protection and Education team in Indonesia.
”Together…! Save the Sumatran Tiger” |
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Field WorkTo save the tiger, we must know where the tiger lives, how many remain, and understand its major threats. A criticism commonly heard is that too much money is spent on fieldwork and not enough is spent on conservation. While the latter is certainly true, the former is not. Good conservation requires good science. We cannot hope to save a species we do not understand. We cannot hope to overcome obstacles we can't identify. And we certainly can't hope to succeed on blind optimism alone. The yellow stars on the map represent the different areas we work in Sumatra. Click on them for more information on each of these areas.
We currently run the largest tiger conservation field program in Indonesia. We are personally connected with the world's leading conservation scientists. Our findings are already being published in the world's leading journals and conservation texts. We are confident that our conservation goals will only be successful if we also continue basic research, monitoring, and assessment. The fieldwork will identify new problems and solutions, and the conservation will suggest new needs for information. It is this synergy that will enable our program to succeed where so many others have failed. Our teams will continue to identify where tigers live, how many live in each habitat patch, and assess the status of its prey, habitat requirements, and threats. The Program will carry out this fieldwork primarily through a network of tiger conservation teams already developed. Geographic information systems and satellite image analysis will be crucial tools to identify priority habitat and to develop databases to synthesize the information coming from the field. Publication and presentation of our activities and results in Indonesia and internationally will be crucial to maintain the highest levels of scientific rigor, scrutiny, and to enable positive feedback on our research and conservation activities. We will be partaking in a mammoth and virtually unprecedented undertaking and it will be critical that we document our successes and failures if others are to learn and borrow from our experiences. | 20 August 2007 World's first for tiger conservation Translocated conflict tiger fitted with GPS collar - FIRST! MORE 18.07.07 2 Tigers caught by new cameras in wknp .. just 2 days after installing new cameras (supplied by STT) in Way Kambas 2 new tigers have been captured on film.... MORE 06.06.07 New tiger photos just in captured on remote camera MORE
06.06.07 Second school opens - funded by STT MORE 01.06.07 Motorbikes funded by STT in use in the field MORE 23.05.07 Annual Report Way Kambas NP...MORE 08.05.07 Teams receive New essential equipment-motorbikes funded by STT Pics 08.05.07... workshop for the local communities... MORE 30.04.07 Annual report Bukit Tigapuluh NP Revealing the Mystery of Bukit Tigapuluh NP MORE Senepis- Latest 16/4/07 Government create corridor to Dumai causing major problems in Senepis...MORE 7/4/07 Protecting the tiger faced mushroom - rare rafflesia monitoring... MORE A Week On Patrol In Bukit Duabelas National Park... More Senepis
- Latest news including: Poacher
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and animals released back to the wild MORE New wild tigers caught on remote cameras to name..MORE Nov 2006 Drought Crisis in Way Kambas NP more Datai village - Latest news and pics... including first ever letter from village child taught to read and write by the teacher funded by STT...More Senepis Tiger Conservation Area – 106,000 hectares approved by Minister of Forestry more View world exclusive pictures of a wild Flat Headed Cat - click here Go on a virtual anti-poaching patrol with rangers in Sumatra - click here |
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The Sumatran Tiger Trust
