International Tiger Project
Indonesia and South-East Asia (HQ Australia) · 0.50°S · 101.40°E
Safeguarding the last Sumatran tigers by protecting the whole rainforest they depend on.
About International Tiger Project
The International Tiger Project fights to save the critically endangered Sumatran tiger by protecting the forests, wildlife and communities of the ecosystems it depends on.
Fewer than 300 Sumatran tigers remain in the wild. Poaching, the illegal wildlife trade and the rapid loss of rainforest to logging, fire and drought are driving the world's smallest tiger towards extinction, and the project warns that without urgent action it could disappear for good.
Rather than focusing on a single species in isolation, the project works to protect whole ecosystems. A project of Wildlife Conservation International and run by The Orangutan Project's board, it provides direct technical and financial backing to conservation on the ground, holding that saving rainforest is one of the most cost-effective ways to protect the planet and its carbon stores.
Its approach pairs monitoring with protection. Camera traps track tiger populations, while Wildlife Protection Units patrol against poachers and work alongside local communities so that people and tigers can live safely together. Much of this is centred on the Bukit Tigapuluh ecosystem in Sumatra.
Protecting the tiger's forest also shelters orangutans, elephants and rhinos and supports the indigenous communities who live there. Support helps fund ranger patrols, snare removal and the long-term defence of one of the planet's most important rainforests.
Wildlife protection units
Funding ranger patrols that remove snares and deter poachers across critical Sumatran tiger habitat.
Camera-trap monitoring
Tracking individual tigers with remote cameras to measure populations and guide protection efforts.
Sumatran Ranger Project
Defending the Leuser ecosystem buffer zone alongside the forest-edge communities who live there.
Tiger rescue and release
Treating injured or trapped tigers and returning recovered animals safely to the wild.
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