Tiger Poaching in Jambi

The tiger population in the province of Jambi, Sumatra, is rapidly decreasing. According to the Jakarta Post, the amount of tigers in he province was more than 50 a couple of years ago, but now, there is only less than twenty left. Didy Wuryanto, the leader of the Jambi Natural Resources Center, said that if the poaching keeps continuing at this rate, the tigers will be extinct in Jambi within the next few years. Didy also said that there have been 10 cases on illegal trading of tiger parts in this year, and most of them happened in Jambi. From August to November last year, 4 tiger pelt traders were caught and arrested. Most of these traders work together with professional hunters who hunt for tigers in the forests, and most of them send the tiger parts to Jakarta, where it's fur and skin can cost up to 75 million rupiahs.