Editorial on conflicts with elephants and tigers

The Jakarta Post
March 6, 2009

A number of Sumatran tigers and elephants have separately attacked human beings within the protected forests and residential areas in Sumatra's Riau, Jambi and Lampung provinces, killing 10 people and wounding dozens others, in the past five weeks.

In revenge, residents have hunted and killed four tigers, but only managed to draw the elephants away from their neighborhoods.

Is killing the Sumatran tigers, which are facing extinction, either in defense or in revenge of the tigers' attacks proper? Are only the tigers to blame? Don't human beings have the biggest share of blame for the animals' attacks?

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