What you need to know

The common name for this animal is the Sunda Tiger, but the scientific name is Pantera Tigris Sondaica. They live on the Sunda islands in Indonesia, their habitats are Tropical broadleaf evergreen forests, freshwater swamp forests and peat swamps. These tigers primarily eat wild pigs, sambar and barking deer, and primates such as macaques. These tigers help the environment by being a top predator which is at the apex of the food chain and keeps the population of wild ungulates in check, thereby maintaining the balance between prey herbivores and the vegetation upon which they feed. These animals are distinguished by heavy black stripes on their orange coat. This allows them to have the perfect camouflage to mimic light reflection on the forest floor. The main reasons these tigers are almost extinct is because of logging. Nearly 80% of their forest land is gone because of logging. The other main reason is because of HUMANS poaching, killing and hunting them. Both of these reasons are caused by humans and it‘s terrible. Things are trying to get put into motion to help these animals but people are stubborn and will do a lot for money and trophies. For example, people are trying to protect them and their home, reduce human-tiger conflict, and conducting science experiments on tiger to help inform conservation strategies. In the end people just need to stop ruining the tigers home and stop killing them for trophies or money.