One killed, the other captured…
Landslides caused by torrential downpour, damaging the feedlot
Endangered Sumatran Tiger, currently only 400 to 600 remain
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It was revealed on the 7th that two Sumatran tigers were killed and escaped from a zoo in Indonesian territory on Borneo Island, one was killed and the other was captured.
According to daily Compass et al., two female tigers, two years old and 18 months old, escaped from the’Sinka Zoo’ in Sinkawang City, Kalimantan, western Borneo at 2 pm on the 5th. After several days of torrential rain, a landslide occurred and the tiger kennel was damaged, leaving a hole to escape. As a result, a 47-year-old zookeeper died while preventing the tigers from escaping.
The police immediately blocked the surrounding villages and ordered residents to refrain from going out. Police and zoo staff even deployed drones to track two tigers. As a result, on the morning of the 6th, he found a tiger named Eka and fired an anesthetic gun, but the tiger ran wild and missed it, and after several more attempts, the police fired a live ammunition to kill him.
A police official said, “It would have been nice if we had captured it, but we couldn’t help it because human life is more important.” On the same day, at 5:30 pm, the police and search team managed to find another tiger, Tora, and then fired an anesthetic gun to capture it.
The endangered Sumatran tiger lived in the wild by about 1,000 in the 1970s. However, due to deforestation and continued poaching, only 400 to 600 animals remain in the wild.
/ Intern reporter Jisu Kang [email protected]
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