Sumatran tiger caught in snare

Padang,
W Sumatra - A male Sumatran tiger was caught on Tuesday
morning in a snare set by villagers in a Taratak Bancah forest area,
Silungkang village, Sawalunto district, West Sumatra, after two of
their buffaloes were killed two days earlier by the endangered animal,
an official said.



"We are still trying to tame the tigar in the location where it was
trapped about six kilometers from the Padang-Jambi trans Sumatra
highways," Local Natural Resources Conservation Office head Maryono
said on Tuesday night.



He said that his office was planning to put the tiger in an iron cage
and to send it to a quarantine in the zoo in Bukittinggi, a district
town in West Sumatra.



Maryono said that the male tiger which remained strong still turned wild and villagers faced difficulties in taming it.



"We will try to take the tiger to Bukittinggi zoo tonight because one of its legs was hurt by snare wires," Maryono said.  (ANTARA News)