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Local police chief Hendra Sukmana said the authorities found a dead male and female tiger on Sunday, with leg wounds caused by falling into a trap near a palm oil plantation in East Aceh province. Aceh.
The Indonesian official added that the body of a third female was found hours later, about 500 meters away, with the trap still embedded in her neck and nearly severed legs.
Agency quotes "Associated Press" The police chief said that the authorities have appealed to the local community and farming companies not to set up traps in the forested areas they may pass through tigers.
In the same context, the head of the Aceh Center for the Conservation of Natural Resources Agus Arianto, said that the team of veterinarians is conducting an autopsy to determine the causes of the tigers’ deaths, adding that many traps similar to those used in hunting wild boars in farms, were found in areas close to the dead tigers.
Traps are commonly used by farmers on the island of Sumatra to hunt wild boars, which are a destructive pest with a wide and omnivorous appetite for a variety of plants, but hunters use traps to kill wild animals for economic purposes.
According to "Red List of Threatened Species"the Sumatran tigers The tigers, which are the most endangered species of tigers, are under increasing pressure due to overhunting and the shrinking of their natural forest habitats.
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Local police chief Hendra Sukmana said the authorities found a dead male and female tiger on Sunday, with leg wounds caused by falling into a trap near a palm oil plantation in East Aceh province. Aceh.
The Indonesian official added that the body of a third female was found hours later, about 500 meters away, with the trap still embedded in her neck and nearly severed legs.
And the Associated Press quoted the police chief as saying that the authorities appealed to the local community and farming companies not to set up traps in areas of forest that they may pass through. tigers.
In the same context, the head of the Aceh Center for the Conservation of Natural Resources Agus Arianto, said that the team of veterinarians is conducting an autopsy to determine the causes of the tigers’ deaths, adding that many traps similar to those used in hunting wild boars in farms, were found in areas close to the dead tigers.
Traps are commonly used by farmers on the island of Sumatra to hunt wild boars, which are a destructive pest with a wide and omnivorous appetite for a variety of plants, but hunters use traps to kill wild animals for economic purposes.
According to the Red List of Threatened Species, Sumatran tigers The tigers, which are the most endangered species of tigers, are under increasing pressure due to overhunting and the shrinking of their natural forest habitats.