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So we are\u003cbr/\u003edifficult to find the food. So we are quite happy when the meat\u003cbr/\u003ecoming on time.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPERCAPTION: Dr. Jansen Manansang, Managing Director Taman\u003cbr/\u003eSafari Park \u003cbr/\u003eProbably the most important part of the park's work is it's captive breeding programme. \u003cbr/\u003eIt has had unprecedented success breeding the Sumatran Tiger: ensuring the slow but steady growth of a species on the verge of extinction plus enlarging the DNA pool for other breeding programmes. \u003cbr/\u003eThese playful carnivores, born four months ago are just the latest success story of a programme that is slowly trying to avert a tragedy.\u003cbr/\u003eBut, the park is fully aware that they cannot rely on handouts\u003cbr/\u003eforever and must find other ways to save their precious captives.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"We should find another way, lets see maybe we should start for\u003cbr/\u003ebreeding some cattle and some chicken, maybe it's a way for\u003cbr/\u003esurvival.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPERCAPTION: Dr. Jansen Manansang, Managing Director Taman\u003cbr/\u003eSafari Park  \u003cbr/\u003eIf survival is difficult in captivity, it's getting to be almost impossible in the wild. \u003cbr/\u003eThe primary forests of Sumatra, the tigers natural, and only habitat, is fast disappearing. \u003cbr/\u003eA combination of logging, devastating forest fires and land clearance for farms has diminished their natural homes to the extent that only isolated pockets remain.\u003cbr/\u003eWith as much as one million hectares of forest in Indonesia disappearing every year it comes as no surprise that there are as few as 500 Sumatran tigers left in the wild.\u003cbr/\u003eThere is little the park can do to effect the destruction of the forests, and little more they can do to stop the economic meltdown that has endangered the tigers in captivity, except hope.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"Of course, we hope the situation will be good in my country and\u003cbr/\u003ethen we have a good visitor and we can have our food for our wild\u003cbr/\u003eanimal.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPERCAPTION: Dr. Jansen Manansang, Managing Director Taman\u003cbr/\u003eSafari Park  \u003cbr/\u003eDespite the generosity of those who have made donations, the future for these cubs is far from secure. \u003cbr/\u003e16 tons of meat sounds like a lot, but this collection of rapacious carnivores will devour that in 30 days. \u003cbr/\u003eThe park says they expect a similar delivery to arrive next month, but after that they don't know where the next meal will come from. \u003cbr/\u003eThe economic situation is getting worse by the day and unless the donations continue, the future for these endangered animals is as uncertain as it is for their cousins in the disappearing forests\u003cbr/\u003e Bogor, West Java, and Sumatra, Indonesia. August 19 1998 \u003cbr/\u003eBogor, West Java\u003cbr/\u003e1. Keeper bringing meat in wheelbarrow to tiger house\u003cbr/\u003e2. Keeper enters tiger house\u003cbr/\u003e3. Keeper puts meat in cage, tiger grabs it.\u003cbr/\u003e4. Tiger pulls meat into cage with teeth\u003cbr/\u003e5. Keeper puts meat into another cage\u003cbr/\u003e6. Tiger's mouth licking meat and biting\u003cbr/\u003e7. Tiger leaps at camera and roars\u003cbr/\u003e8. Tiger eating and growling\u003cbr/\u003e9. Tiger roars\u003cbr/\u003e10. Tiger leaps at camera and roars\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Doctor Jansen Manansang, Managing Director, Taman Safari Park \u003cbr/\u003e12. Tiger cub runs across cage and plays with another cub which is eating \u003cbr/\u003e13. Tiger cubs eating and playing\u003cbr/\u003e14. Tiger cubs playing\u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Doctor Jansen Manansang, Managing Director, Taman Safari Park \u003cbr/\u003eSumatra - File \u003cbr/\u003e16. Smoke rising above forest tree line\u003cbr/\u003e17. Destruction at edge of forest\u003cbr/\u003e18. Devastated forest shrouded in smoke\u003cbr/\u003e19. Wasteland of smouldering trees\u003cbr/\u003eBogor, West Java\u003cbr/\u003e20. SOUNDBITE: (English) Doctor Jansen Manansang, Managing Director, Taman Safari Park     \u003cbr/\u003e21. Tiger cub climbing on log in cage \u003cbr/\u003e22. Wide of outside cage\u003cbr/\u003e23. Mother tiger drinking water \u003cbr/\u003e24. 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