By Joe Figel | Dr.
In the aftermath of Cyclone Senyar (see landslide image of the landscape), our staff members have forged forward, continuing patrols in both Aceh and West Sumatra.
We're now entering Year 4 of monitoring in Aceh and the West Sumatra monitoring recently revealed 7 new individual tigers, in collaboration with Kerinci-Seblat National Park.
Producing more than just a collection of amazing tiger pictures, the cameras help us construct pieces to the tiger conservation puzzle, providing insights that facilitate human-tiger coexistence. Through careful analysis of stripe patterns, we can identify individual tigers and track their ranging and survival over time. If new individuals show up every year, it’s an indication that poaching may be occurring. In well-patrolled habitats, we wouldn’t see population turnover; rather, resident breeding tigers would establish home ranges and maintain them in territorial fashion.
Meanwhile, human-tiger conflicts still occur in forest-edge communities but rapid response teams have been mobilized to curb the most severe impacts. Mitigation of this conflict is critical to prevent deleterious impacts on human livelihoods, protect tigers from retaliatory killings, and promote community support for conservation.
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