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The Sumatran tiger is a rare tiger subspecies that inhabits the Indonesian island of Sumatra. It has been listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List in 2008 as the population was estimated at 441 to 679 individuals, with no subpopulation larger than 50 individuals and a declining trend.
Sumatran tigers persist in isolated populations across Sumatra. They strongly prefer uncultivated forest and make little use of plantations of acacia and oil palm even if these are available. Within natural forest areas, they tend to use areas with higher elevation, lower annual rainfall, further from the forest edge, and closer to forest centers.
Major threats include habitat loss due to the expansion of palm oil plantations and planting of acacia plantations, prey-base depletion, and illegal trade primarily for the domestic market. There are high levels of human-tiger conflict, as well as illegal trade in tiger parts. From 1998-2002 at least 51 tigers per year were killed, with 76% for purposes of trade and 15% out of human-tiger conflict. Ng and Nemora (2007) found the parts of at least 23 tigers for sale in market surveys around the island.
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