Sumatran tiger (CR).

This project will have strong emphasis on building local capacity, which included field and data analysis training from myself to local researchers, students, and national park staff. Project main activities will be surveying areas within KSNP where we have surveyed in 2004 and 2010, then will be followed by this project in 2014-15.

The proposed work will be aiming to conducting camera trap survey repetition in selected study areas in RKE, Sipurak, Bungo and Ipuh. Moreover, the project also targets to improving National Park staff capacity on conducting felids and their prey monitoring techniques so that they could continue their effort to conserve these species and their habitat.

In regards to science-driven conservation work, the project would like to:

1) assist in-country undergraduate students who are interested in felid research and studies doing their degree research on understanding felids ecology;

2) improve understanding of Sumatran felids ecology and their environment factors affect their distribution: elevation, forest cover, spatial and temporal as well as availability of their prey through providing priority areas for these species;

3) supporting KSNP management authority through providing felids population trends from three periods of study,

4) contribute to IUCN global small cats assessment at where this project will feed to their global status evaluation.

The ultimate goal for this project is to see changes over time of felid population and to see what extent the existing forest patrol and conservation efforts does affect their population. Thus, a ten-year population data will be feed onto Kerinci Seblat NP management authority priority species conservation action plan of which all felids are included.