Imam Ardhianto - Changing Human-Tiger Relations in Sumatra

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Aug 29, 202600:48:12News & Politics

Six years ago, in a village in West Sumatra, a tiger died and its human relatives moved to bury it — because the tiger is understood as their own family. The Indonesian wildlife conservation authority BKSDA intervened, f...

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