THERE are thought to be less than 500 Sumatran tigers left in the wild and these few remaining tigers are under threat, in particular from poaching for body parts.
There is a successful captive breeding program at Perth Zoo in Western Australia, and today the latest three additions to this program made their public debut.
Photograph of a Sumatran tiger in the wild, via Richard Ness, taken by a camera trap set in Sumatra by Dr. Neil Franklin from The Tiger Foundation.