minutes before commencing a five day tiger conservation forest mission in Sumatra, Indonesia…
In 2002 I worked with the Tiger Conservation and Protection Unit (TCPU) of Fauna and Flora International in Sumatra, Indonesia.
The group has been instrumental in saving the Sumatran Tiger from extinction.
Their work is often perilous, dealing with threats coming from poachers, illegal palm oil companies and corrupt law enforcement along the supply chain.
Unsustainable coffee and palm oil plantations remain the key reasons for tiger habitat loss to this day…
arriving at a coffee farmer’s house for questioning…
Not all the coffee we drink comes from sustainable sources.
Palm oil is used in the manufacture of half the products we consume, such as snacks, ice cream, toothpaste, shampoo, cosmetics, Biofuel and animal feed.
If we want to preserve our Sumatran rainforests and the tigers that live in them, we need to be mindful and ethical consumers.
If we continue to destroy our forests, our biodiversity and our natural environment, we almost certainly will destroy ourselves.
Seeing the destruction of the rainforest with my own eyes was devastating.
There are fewer than 500 Sumatran tigers left in the wild.
We can help save them by contributing to Fauna and Flora International here