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After more than 3 years, the Eye of the Tiger monitoring program in Sumatra has resumed its original form, i.e. monitoring in Gunung Leuser National Park in cooperation with rangers and our field team led by Jusli Farasian Ginting .
We are very happy because what made the most sense in Sumatra was the protective monitoring of Sumatran tigers, which face the greatest threat from international poaching for traditional Chinese medicine (tiger bones, dried penises, fur, teeth, claws, intestines, etc.).
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Thanks to the new data from the field, which made us confident to continue, we agreed with Jusli and agreed on his proposal to create a base for Green Patrol in Batu Katak, Sumatra. We think it is high time to bring tiger conservation and monitoring back into the proper game, more effective than in the past.
There was also an inspection of four small photo traps Bunaty and Predator, which are placed on poachers and illegal entrances to the park. After a day's rest, a three-day monitoring trip to the well-known and much-loved but challenging Valeo Silencio was ahead of us. Two months later we returned to La Amistad NP and on checking the photo traps we had a black panther right at the start and another one a few kilometres further on. Amazing! However, we also caught a second poaching group on the photo traps after a year and passed the data to the rangers.
Despite the fact that we were robbed in 2022 by YHUA and Zbyněk Hrábek of the reserve and the Tiger House, we have never given up the fight to protect Sumatran tigers. We supported Green Patrol in the difficult and not very effective year of 2023 when it was wall to wall. We admit that at several moments their future hung in the balance and they were more or less saved by the intervention of our colleague Petr Coubal , who together with Honza Suchý was newly put in charge.
Thanks to the new data from the field, which made us confident to continue, we agreed with Jusli and agreed on his proposal to create a base for Green Patrol in Batu Katak, Sumatra. We think it is high time to bring tiger conservation and monitoring back into the proper game, more effective than in the past.
There was also an inspection of four small photo traps Bunaty and Predator, which are placed on poachers and illegal entrances to the park. After a day's rest, a three-day monitoring trip to the well-known and much-loved but challenging Valeo Silencio was ahead of us. Two months later we returned to La Amistad NP and on checking the photo traps we had a black panther right at the start and another one a few kilometres further on. Amazing! However, we also caught a second poaching group on the photo traps after a year and passed the data to the rangers.
Despite the fact that we were robbed in 2022 by YHUA and Zbyněk Hrábek of the reserve and the Tiger House, we have never given up the fight to protect Sumatran tigers. We supported Green Patrol in the difficult and not very effective year of 2023 when it was wall to wall. We admit that at several moments their future hung in the balance and they were more or less saved by the intervention of our colleague Petr Coubal , who together with Honza Suchý was newly put in charge.
