Residents of the protected Leuser National Park in Aceh struggle to keep Sumatran tigers away from their livestock and homes.
Once a rarity, these kinds of attacks are now on the rise in North Sumatra. Between 2019 and 2020, Sumatran tigers killed at least 20 cattle in this region alone. The attacks are also an economic strain on the region’s farmers, costing around $10,000 in lost cattle.
But there’s another, more concerning outcome of the rise in attacks—an environment of fear amongst those who call the forest borderlands their home.
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