It’s the eye of the tiger…Camera-trap survey captures lost, rare species
Posted by staff / August 26, 2010
A Sumatran tiger faces a camera trap head on in Kerinci Seblat National Park, on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, in a May 2007 photo.
One of the last havens for the Sumatran tiger — listed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) — the park was the site of a camera-trap survey from 2004 to 2009, one of the most extensive such projects ever conducted, conservationists say.
Pictures of tigers as well as some other forest species captured during the project — taken by a team from Fauna and Flora International (FFI) and the University of Kent’s Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology — were released for the first time last week by FFI. NationalGeographic.com shares a gallery of images:
Expanded gallery of camera trap images at NationalGeographic.com.
Photographs courtesy Fauna & Flora International/DICE: 1. Sumatran tiger; 2. Asian tapir; 3. Sunda clouded leopard
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