Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae) is typical of animals that we can still meet in the island of Sumatra in Indonesia, is one of six sub-species of tigers that still survive today and are included in the classification of critical wildlife threatened with extinction (critically endangered) in red list of threatened species released by the IUCN World Conservation Institutions. This is because of illegal logging occurring in Sumatra island which is the original habitat of the Sumatran tiger.
With a characteristic that an easy to understand which have the darkest color of all other tiger subspecies, the black pattern width and the distance is sometimes tightly attached. Male Sumatran tigers average length 92 inches from the head to tail, or about 250cm long from head to foot with the weight 300 pounds or about 140kg, while the height of an adult males can reach 60cm. Females average 78 inches in length or about 198cm and weighs 200 pounds or about 91kg. Sumatran tiger stripe is thinner than other tiger subspecies.
Sumatran tiger could live anywhere, from the lowland forests to mountain forest, and lived in many places which no protected. Only about 400 individuals lived in the nature reserve and national parks, and the rest scattered in other areas are cleared for agriculture, there are also approximately 250 males were reared in the Zoo all over the world . Sumatran tigers face threats will lose their habitat because the area of its spread, such as blocks of lowland forest, peat and threatened mountain rain forest clearing for agricultural land and commercial plantations, as well as encroachment by illegal logging and road construction activities. Thus the population of endangered Sumatran Tiger obviously because this situation is very alarming.
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