Sumatran tiger walk to extinction
After the extinction, in the last century, the Tiger of Bali or Java, now is the Sumatran tiger will disappear, due to habitat loss and hunting. Until 1978, according to the Guardian, about a thousand tigers lived in Sumatra, but a very accelerated process of deforestation and hunting took the number down to 400. The island, once painted green, has lost more than half its forest cover since 1985, and the big losers were the Tigers.According to the organization that monitors trade in wildlife, Traffic, every year die 40 Tigers in Sumatra, due to poaching. Which turns out to be facilitated by the loss of habitat. Without a stable place to stay, Tigers are also attacked by farmers.In fact, the Sumatran tiger had very large conservation plans, but they were destroyed by the construction of a road that cut the Indonesia tropical forest, a reserve which is being restored by British conservationists.This road, built to carry coal, destroyed one of the largest areas of biodiversity on the planet, a global priority for conservation of habitats.The road has more than 50 meters wide and will take the product of five mines in the South of the island to the river Lalan, province of Jambi. When the project is finished, the extinction of the Tiger will be closer.Photo: clickforhelpeu under Creative Commons license
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