Rare Tigers Activate Infrared Cameras | National Geographic

rare close-up video of a Sumatran tiger
and two cubs was captured recently in a
camera trap in the jungle of indonesia’s
sumatra island the world wildlife fund
set up the cameras to help monitor the
population of the tigers in their
primary breeding grounds which the World
Wildlife Fund says is under threat from
poaching and deforestation the Tigers
approach the camera sniffed it and then
walked away the noise you hear is one of
the Tigers off camera inspecting the
apparatus the World Wildlife Fund says
the footage is a cause for celebration
the group says it’s the first time
they’ve recorded evidence of Tiger
breeding in central Sumatra there are as
few as four hundred Sumatran tigers left
in Indonesia the World Wildlife Fund
says the tiger habitat is threatened by
companies clearing the forest for paper
and palm oil production as well as
illegal logging the infrared triggered
camera traps are activated when they
sense body heat in their path these
cameras are placed nearly a month ago
along a wildlife corridor known to be
used by Tigers after five years of the
World Wildlife Fund study in Sumatra
using wildlife activated still camera
traps these are the first images of a
tiger with offspring
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