Friday, October 22, 2010

Creature Feature: Proof Positive

What irrefutable proof that man is destroying protected tiger habitat! This remarkable video from a camera trap shows the presence of tigers in a protected Sumatran forest, Bukit Batabuh, that is a corridor between two tiger preserves. The video shows it being illegally cleared for palm oil plantations. There are fewer than 400 Sumatran tigers left in Indonesia. The tiger is trying to tell us something as he walks in the wake of the destruction of his home by a bulldozer: