A plantation worker in Indonesia was killed Friday by a rare Sumatran tiger. The big cat had attacked the woman as she waited for her bathing husband by a river.
“Her husband and other plantation workers heard her screams, but when they reached her, the tiger was still nearby,” the head of the local conservation organization, Genman Hasibuan, said Tuesday. The body of the Indonesian woman could therefore only be recovered a day after the attack.
Tiger probably starving
Deadly encounters between humans and tigers take place again and again on the island of Sumatra. Tigers, believed to have starved to death, repeatedly attacked plantation workers and prospectors. As a result, wire traps were set up on a plantation in Aceh province in April that killed three Sumatran tigers.
The Sumatran tiger is the smallest of the extant tiger subspecies. On Sumatra, whose area roughly corresponds to that of Germany, Austria and Switzerland combined, there are no more than 400 specimens left in the wild. Their numbers are declining, mainly due to poaching and the destruction of their habitat, for example by palm oil plantations.
Source: Krone
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