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Mar 25, 2011 Rare Sumatran tiger killed by electric fence JAKARTA - AN ENDANGERED Sumatran tiger has died after brushing against an electric fence set up by Indonesian farmers, in the second such incident this year, an official said on Friday. There are fewer than 400 Sumatran tigers left in the wild and environmental activists say the animals are increasing coming into contact with people as a result of their natural habitat being lost due to deforestation. The 2m male tiger was electrocuted on Monday in Jambi province in the centre of Sumatra, Indonesia's largest island, a provincial conservation agency chief, Mr Trisiswo, told AFP. He said it was the second time this year a tiger had died as a result of the electric fences installed by locals to protect palm oil plantations. 'The tiger's body was partly charred but unlike the first incident, the body was still intact,' he said. Locals had sold some of the body parts of the tiger that was killed last month. Mr Trisiswo said people in the village of Air Laut Hitam village had encircled their palm oil plantations with the high-voltage electric wires to keep out wild animals and had refused to abide by local rules banning the practice. -- AFP [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Post message: [email protected] Subscribe : [email protected] Unsubscribe : [email protected] List owner : [email protected] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
