Endangered Sumatran Tiger Dies in Trap on APP Concession

[kristopher]

Endangered Sumatran Tiger Dies in Trap on APP Concession
Blogpost by Laura K. and Mike Baillie - July 26, 2011 at 14:20

Warning: this blog contains images and video footage that may upset you.

Recently word came to our Greenpeace office in Indonesia that a Sumatran tiger was stuck in an animal trap in the province of Riau. It had been snared for six days in total without food or water. After a week of suffering, forest officers arrived to evacuate the tiger – but it was too late. The tiger died during the rescue attempt.

The spot where the tiger became trapped was in an Asian Pulp and Paper (APP) acacia plantation. Video footage reveals that near the snare was a large area of recently destroyed forest where active clearing was still ongoing. Just 13 kilometres away from where its habitat was being destroyed by excavators, this animal spent its last days trapped, injured and starving.

The Sumatran tiger is critically endangered: only about 400 remain in the wild -- and now another has been lost....

http://www.greenpeace.org/africa/en/News/Blog/endangered-sumatran-tiger-dies-in-trap-on-app/blog/35898/

[Booster]

1. Wish I'd saved myself & not clicked on the link. What a shame.

[kristopher]

2. Well, since you did, perhaps you can help save more than yourself now...

Since I don't know you at all, I'm obviously not commenting on what your level of involvement is, but rather what the level of involvement for us all needs to be.

[Booster]

3. When I get my wits about me again, I'll go back to the link and

really go over it to see what I can do. The meaness and stupidity of man just astounds me and makes he feel helpless to do anything to change this kind of ignorance. I know this kind of thing has been going on since time began, but it just seems to get worse and worse. I just don't understand it.