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Save Critical Habitat for Sumatran Tigers in Indonesia

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Project Overview

Survival is at stake for the world’s rarest Tigers on the island of Sumatra

  • Species at Risk

    Sumatran Tiger (CR), Sumatran Clouded Leopard (EN), Malay Tapir (EN), Nicobar Long-tailed Macaque (VU), Sunda Pangolin (CR), Southern Pig-tailed Macaque (EN)

  • Carbon stored

    7,153,637 mT *

    *(metric tons of CO2 equivalents)
  • Partner

    Yayasan Palka Agra Hayati

  • 35,800 Proposed Acres Conserved by

    Village Forests

  • Project Cost: $254,070
Indonesia
Proposed Acres

35,800

Project Overview

Survival is at stake for the world’s rarest Tigers on the island of Sumatra

  • Species at Risk

    Sumatran Tiger (CR), Sumatran Clouded Leopard (EN), Malay Tapir (EN), Nicobar Long-tailed Macaque (VU), Sunda Pangolin (CR), Southern Pig-tailed Macaque (EN)

  • Carbon stored

    7,153,637 mT *

    *(metric tons of CO2 equivalents)
  • Partner

    Yayasan Palka Agra Hayati

  • 35,800 Proposed Acres Conserved by

    Village Forests

  • Project Cost: £203,256
Indonesia
Proposed Acres

35,800

The rarest subspecies of Tiger is losing its habitat in Indonesia’s West Sumatra rainforest. Critically Endangered Sumatran Tigers are on the brink of extinction, yet hunters and poachers continue to target them. Relentless deforestation has ravaged their only home, as oil palm plantations, unregulated logging, and agricultural expansion have razed the rainforest.

Working with our local partner, Yayasan Palka Agra Hayati, we will help put a stop to deforestation in this critical habitat. Together, we will support the creation of Village Forests that prohibit illegal logging, commercial hunting, and conversion to plantations across 35,800 acres of critical Sumatran Tiger habitat.

Header photo: Sumatran Tiger, by DPTRO

Only

400

wild Sumatran Tigers remain

Explore the West Sumatran Rainforest

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Nicobar Long-tailed Macaque © courtesy of Vyshak Murugan

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West Sumatra rainforest © courtesy of Yayasan Palka Agra Hayati

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Malayan Tapir © courtesy of Vladimir Wrangel

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West Sumatra rainforest © courtesy of Yayasan Palka Agra Hayati

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Sunda Pangolin © courtesy of Ari Asp999

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West Sumatra rainforest © courtesy of Yayasan Palka Agra Hayati

Save iconic species from grave danger

Sumatra is a hotspot of biodiversity—the only place in the world where tigers, rhinos, orangutans, and elephants live together. After decades of deforestation that claimed most of the island’s rainforest, wildlife populations significantly declined. A substantial number of species now survive in isolated, unprotected habitats.

The Village Forests will protect an important corridor connecting to Sumatra’s expansive protected area, Kerinci Seblat National Park, which covers 3.39 million acres. The largest known population of Sumatran Tigers—estimated at 128—relies on this corridor, as do other highly threatened species, including the Critically Endangered Sunda Pangolin, Endangered Sumatran Clouded Leopard, and Endangered Malay Tapir. The Endangered Southern Pig-tailed Macaque and Vulnerable Nicobar Long-tailed Macaque also reside in this rainforest.

Support local conservation and sustainable livelihoods

This legal designation of Village Forest formalizes a social forestry program agreement between local communities, West Sumatra Forestry Service, Solok Protected Forest Management Unit, and our partner. Livelihood programs, including sustainable collection of non-timber products and eco-tourism, will ensure lasting conservation with benefits to the rainforest, wildlife, and communities.

Protecting what remains of critical habitat and extraordinary biodiversity in Sumatra is an urgent conservation priority. This project builds on the Government of Indonesia’s vision of collaboration with NGOs, academics, and other related parties to preserve the forests and environment for the long term.

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