Characterizing human-tiger conflict in Sumatra, Indonesia: implications for conservation
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Human-tiger conflict occurs in Indonesia but mediate disturbance areas such as multiple-use forests where tigers and people coexist. In Indonesia there is a there is little recent information about the scope of the problem, and adequate policies are not in place to address need to develop a definition of problem tigers, a database to track conflicts, and a process to respond immediately to the conflict. Published and unpublished reports of conflict between Sumatran tigers Panthera tigris sumatrae, people conflicts when they occur. Without a better understanding of human-tiger conflict and a concerted eCort to proand their livestock were collected and analysed to characterize the extent, distribution and impact of human-tiger actively address the problem, future landscape-level tiger conservation and management eCorts may be jeopardized. conflict on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. Reportedly, between 1978 and 1997, tigers killed 146 people and injured 30, and killed at least 870 livestock. Conflict was
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