Sumatran in a sentence

Pahu is one of just three identified Sumatran rhinos in Indonesian Borneo, where the subpopulation of the species is believed to be functionally extinct due to decades of deforestation, poaching and, more recently, a low birthrate.

She also serves as the North American representative to the Global Species Management Plan for Sumatran tigers.

There are believed to be less than 500 Sumatran tigers left in the wild where they are found in forested areas on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia.

Achilles, Howletts’ male Sumatran tiger, will be the star of the show during Carnivore Week.

Authorities are beefing up law enforcement to catch those responsible for illegal burning and have moved to restore degraded peatland forests - a key buffer against annual flooding and home to endangered species, including Sumatran orangutans.

By 2003, the Sumatran rhino had become extinct in Peninsular Malaysia (which was seriously hit by poaching) when all five rhinos at the Rhino Conservation Centre in Selangor died due to an infection.

Mimi Nazir, head of Riau's health agency, said the Sumatran province had opened 12 temporary centres in the capital Pekanbaru to treat people suffering respiratory infections.

Poaching remains the largest threat and has led to decreases for white rhinos and Sumatran rhinos over two years.

Scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) in Germany will attempt to harvest the eggs from Malaysia’s sole surviving Sumatran rhino.

Sumatran elephant is found decapitated with its tusks ripped.

The pair will hike through Gunung Leuser National Park – the last sanctuary of the Sumatran orangutan from the 7 – 9 September in their campaign to end animal cruelty.

The PM hopes the money will save the black rhino, African elephant, snow leopard and Sumatran tiger from extinction.

This procedure is our only hope to keep the Bornean Sumatran rhino genes alive.

Actor Chicco Jerikho, center, poses with Sumatran elephants at Way Kambas National Park in Lampung.

At a government hill station on the edge of palm plantations in rural Bengkulu, 12 tame Sumatran elephants — former circus performers — have been recruited into a “flying squadron” to chase wild elephants away from palm oil plantations or villages.

For some species such as the Sumatran rhino, their world is potentially coming to an end due to their critically low number and habitat loss.

Less than 400 Sumatran tigers still exist, and they can only be found on Sumatra, an Indonesian island.

Many “Bornean/Sumatran crosses were once present in American zoos,” the site says.

Replacing the crocodile above the left breast of the shirt are the Gulf of California porpoise, the Burmese Roofed Turtle, Sumatran Tiger, the Andega Rock Iguana and the Northern Sportive Lemur, among others.

The Sumatran tiger was slaughtered, disemboweled and hanged from a ceiling in public hall as people poured in to see the dead creature.