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Of the approximately 320,000 hectares of natural forest in the Bukit Tigapuluh landscape, only 135,000 hectares are protected in the Bukit Tigapuluh National Park. The area outside the national park including where WWF camera traps documented the tiger cubs on video are threatened, mostly by industrial plantations, illegal encroachment and palm oil development.

Sign On to Save Sumatra's Tigers

Dear Activist,

With only some 400 left in the wild, Sumatran tigers are one of the most critically endangered predators on Earth. But there is new hope for these majestic cats: The island nation of Indonesia, of which Sumatra is a part, has joined with other countries that have wild tiger populations in pledging to double the number of tigers in the wild by the next Year of the Tiger in 2022. In Indonesia’s case, however, urgent action is needed to avert a calamity that could undermine this commitment.

Over the past two months, WWF camera traps have documented the presence of 12 tigers—including two mothers and their cubs—in the forest just outside of Sumatra’s Bukit Tigapuluh National Park. One video shows two cubs playing in a small clearing, batting a large leaf the way a housecat might play with a catnip toy. Unfortunately for these cubs, however, their home is about to be destroyed by large pulp and paper companies that have ignored appeals to spare the forest.

This is where you come in. You can help by joining other activists from around the world in signing a petition to the government of Indonesia, urging decision-makers to declare this critically important tiger habitat off limits to the loggers responsible for so much of Sumatra’s destruction.

Bukit Tigapuluh, or “Thirty Hills,” is one of only 20 priority tiger landscapes in Asia where tigers have the best chance of increasing their numbers and making a comeback from the verge of extinction. We can save them—and with them the biologically diverse species that share their ecosystem. But we need your help.

Please sign our petition to Indonesian officials, urging them to protect the remaining forests of the Bukit Tigapuluh landscape from industrial logging.

We will add your name to a global list of signatures we are collecting and deliver it to the Indonesian government.

Thank you for everything you do to support conservation.

Sincerely,