Eyes on the Forest, a conservation coalition, has released a research report on the clash between commercial logging and Sumatran tigers living in forests clear cut by the paper industry.
Their analysis shows that most of the tiger - human violence occurring in Sumatra has taken place near areas being deforested by Asia Pulp and Paper. Over the last 12 years, 55 people and 15 critically endangered Sumatran tigers have lost their lives in the violence. Seventeen of the tigers have been captured alive.
Johny Mundung, of Walhi Riau, an EoF coalition member stated, “APP has recently made ridiculous public claims that it is leading tiger conservation in the area, when in fact it is jeopardizing the safety of local communities and pushing the tigers closer to local extinction. Global paper buyers should not be fooled: APP destroys forests and wildlife.”
Fewer than 400 Sumatran Tigers are left in the wild forests. The number of breeding pairs may be unknown. A serious infectious disease could wipe out the whole population. The large cats also need enough space to find food to maintain a healthy state in order to breed and bear healthy offspring. No one seems to know how many living wild tiger cubs there are left in Sumatra. Island relatives of the Sumatran tiger are all extinct: the Bali, Java, and Trinil. The last
Bali tiger was shot in the wild in 1937.
Eyes of the Forest states that Asia Pulp and Paper cleared 2.5 million acres of wild forests to make pulp for paper products since 1980.
http://ecoworldly.com/2009/03/28/tiger-human-violence-linked-to-paper-company/
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