Scientists are aware that the Sumatran tiger is endangered through many reasons. For one the tiger population has been decreased by 80 percent within the past 10 years due to poaching for traditional medicine, trade, and China’s tiger bone wine. Tiger bone wine is a popular wine within China. Creating the wine involves tiger bones being utilise in the wine. CITES the settlement that regulates international wildlife trade, has required all countries with captive tigers to present a report on how they are ensuring the tiger and their parts don’t enter legal trade. This has resulted in scientist around the world realising about these dangers. As well as that, protests have been presented around the globe to save Sumatran tigers.
The methods that poacher utilise to capture the tigers include, setting up paw traps in tiger located areas. Poacher often set paw trap that are like mice traps to claps upon the organism’s paw. This results in the tiger death as the trap clasp tightly upon its paw. Other was include shooting with gun. Shooting tiger is illegal in Sumatra though the poachers take no remorse and keep on completing this anyway. This excessive killing of this organism has resulted in 80 percent of its population disappearing and leaves fewer than 400 Sumatran tiger clinging on for their lives.
Scientist have utilised various ways to monitored this situation, for instance they have monitored captive breeding of Sumatran tigers. This has allowed them to make sure that the captive breeding isn't involved in any illegal trade. They have all discussed solutions including monitoring the tiger behaviour as to work out how to rise the population. They have also worked and are working in Sumatra to address to the folk that poaching is wrong and that they are developing the plan for the town as so they don't have to resort to poaching to feed their families. (National Geographic, nd)