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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
Leonie Helm

Pioneering use of camera traps in Indonesia sheds first light on critically endangered Sumatran tigers

A Sumatran tiger caught on a trail camera in Indonesia .

Conservation of threatened species is dependent on consistent population monitoring, and camera traps, or trail cameras, are a great way for researchers to do this.

Scientists have utilized camera traps to present the first study of the critically endangered Sumatran tigers and their prey in the Ulu Masen Ecosystem, Aceh, Indonesia, lending fresh urgency to calls from conservationists for greater protection efforts in the critically endangered subspecies’ northernmost stronghold forests.

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