The tigress fought for her life on the Indonesian island of Sumatra for five days. Without success! She couldn’t get out of the snare trap. Your death sentence. The big cat died of thirst. The dead animal is a Sumatran tiger. They are considered extremely rare and threatened with extinction. The carcass was found on Sunday near a reservation.
The trap was apparently set up by poachers. Now the police are investigating with the nature conservation authority in this case. Because the dead big cat is only one of several cases of poaching.
Java and Bali tigers have already been exterminated
The Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae) is the smallest of the living subspecies of the tiger. In addition to poaching, the destruction of natural habitats by palm oil plantations has greatly decimated their numbers.
On the island of Sumatra, the area of which roughly corresponds to that of Germany, Austria and Switzerland combined, there are no more than 400 specimens left in the wild. It is the last remaining subspecies of the big cat in Indonesia after the Java and Bali tigers were already exterminated. (jmh / SDA)