HOW DOES AUSTRALIA ZOO HELP CONSERVE TIGERS WORLDWIDE?
In June this year, Australia Zoo sent a veterinarian representative, Dr Jon Hanger, to Sumatra as an emissary for wildlife and tiger conservation.While in Sumatra, Dr Hanger attended Kerinci Seblat National Park (KSNP) to conduct several workshops on treating wildlife emergencies. Local vets, wildlife rangers and anti-poaching officers were some of those who benefited from Dr Hanger’s vast experience as a top wildlife vet. He also worked alongside ‘Fauna and Flora International’, (FFI – a UK registered charity and the oldest conservation organisation in the world), that has been working on tiger and habitat conservation in KSNP since 2000.The poaching of animals such as tigers is a huge problem in Sumatra. The FFI team has witnessed many animals viciously caught in snares, horrible traps that seriously maim and kill the unfortunate animals that cross their paths. One of Dr. Hanger’s main initiatives in his workshops is to address the issue and deal with how to catch, handle, treat and
