This archive report was first published on 23 June 2020.
Published on June 23, 2020, a male Sumatran tiger was found dead in North Sumatra's Batang Gadis national park.
According to park authorities, the tiger's carcass was uncovered following a tip-off, with some of its pelt and organs missing.
"Our preliminary conclusion is that the tiger was poisoned," said park spokesman Bobby Nopandry in an interview with AFP.
Locals, including a village head, alleged that the poisoning was orchestrated by farmers who were angry the tiger had killed their livestock.
Human-animal conflicts are common in Indonesia, particularly in areas where the clearing of rainforest for palm oil plantations is destroying natural habitats.
Sumatra has seen a spate of fatal tiger attacks on humans in the past year, and Indonesia is also battling rampant poaching, which accounts for almost all Sumatran tiger deaths, according to TRAFFIC, a global wildlife trade monitoring network.
On Monday, police in Sumatra's Aceh province arrested four suspected traffickers for killing a Sumatran tiger and attempting to sell its body parts.
Sumatran tigers are considered critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, with fewer than 400 believed to remain in the wild.
