Thanks to you, we’re seeing Sumatran tigers thriving in the wild.
Your support helps our teams track tigers with trail cameras, hidden deep in the forests of the Bukit Tigapuluh Ecosystem in Sumatra. These cameras quietly capture rare video footage of Sumatran tigers as they roam about their days.
By tracking tigers and following their movements, our Wildlife Protection Unit teams learn where they go, when they hunt, and when they might be in danger. This knowledge is critical to protecting them.
And the best part, we can also identify individual tigers, so we know even more detail about each wild, thriving life!
With the footage you helped make possible, we recently confirmed five individual Sumatran tigers living in the Keritang and Lubuk Mandarsah areas of the forest.
We identified each tiger by its unique stripe pattern, just like you would with a human and their fingerprints. Take a look at these photos below, so you can see the distinctive stripes that helped us identify each tiger.
These two females are thriving in the Keritang area of the forests. Thank you for keeping them safe!
This female tiger in the Lubuk Mandarsah area looked directly into the camera. How terrifyingly amazing is that!
These two male tigers are also in the Lubuk Mandarsah. Can you spot the telltale stripes that helped identify them?
Thanks to your generosity, our teams are also able to carefully study the footage, learning even more about each individual and their life in the forest–like when they are most active.
Video footage shows they are busiest at dawn and dusk, especially between 5pm and 7pm. Midday is much quieter, because the jungle is simply too hot!
This makes perfect sense, as tigers are powerful hunters, and the evening is when larger prey like tapir and wild pigs are on the move. Smaller animals, like mousedeer and macaques, are more active in the morning.
Seeing these natural behaviours confirms something important: these tigers are living as they should. Wild and free.
And you made this possible.
From installing trail cameras, to patrolling forests, analysing data, and protecting tiger habitat, your kindness is behind every step, and every action to save their species.
You are giving Sumatran tigers their best chance to survive. Everyday, you are helping move them further away from the threat of Extinction.
Thank you for standing with these incredible animals. 🙏
Program name: Wildlife Protection Unit
Location: Bukit Tigapuluh (BTP), Sumatra, Indonesia
Program Partner: This program is a collaboration with our FZS partners, and the Ministry of Forestry 🌳