page_title: Tiger
section_title: Tiger hunting
hierarchical_section_title: Tiger / Relation with humans / Tiger hunting
caption_attribution_description: English: Negative. Although not as important as in India, for many Europeans the hunt in the Dutch East Indies was a part of live in the tropics. For some it was pastime (the 'sunday-hunter'), others made their job of it. On the European agriculture ventures staff, lifestock, and the crops had to be protected agains different wild species. The Indonesian Archipel was home of three tiger subspecies until 1950: the Bali tiger, te Javan tiger, and the Sumatran tiger. Around 1950, the Bali tiger had become extinct, while the Javan tiger was hunted so heavy that it had become fairly rare and now also became extinct. There are only some hundred individuals remaining of the Sumatran tiger. (P. Boomgaard, 2001) Tiger shot in May 1941. Malingping. Bantam. A group of men and children poses with a recent killed tiger in Malingping in Banten, West-Java Bahasa Indonesia: Negatif. Sekelompok pria dan anak-anak berfoto dengan harimau Jawa yang mati diburu pada Mei 1941 di Malingping, Banten. Nederlands: Negatief. Hoewel niet zo belangrijk als in India was de jacht in Indië voor veel Europeanen een onderdeel van het leven in de tropen. Voor sommigen was het tijdverdrijf (de 'zondagsjager'), anderen maakten er hun beroep van. Op de Europese landbouwondernemingen moesten het personeel, het vee en de gewassen soms beschermd worden tegen verschillende soorten wild. Er kwamen tot 1950 in de Indonesische Archipel drie ondersoorten van de tijger voor: de Bali tijger, de Java tijger en de Sumatra tijger. Rond 1950 was de Bali tijger uitgestorven, terwijl de Java tijger zo zwaar bejaagd was dat hij tamelijk zeldzaam werd en nu ook (zo goed als) uitgestorven is. Alleen van de Sumatra tijger zijn er nog enkele honderden in leven. (P. Boomgaard, 2001). Tijger geschoten Mei 1941. Malingping. Bantam. Een groep mannen en kinderen poseert bij een pas geschoten tijger te Malingping in Bantam, West-Java Sunda: Kliseu. Warga lembur dipoto jeung lodaya Jawa anu paéh diboro bulan Méi 1941 di Malingping. Čeština: Lovci s&#160;tygrem
context_page_description: The tiger is the largest extant cat species and a member of the genus Panthera. It is most recognisable for its dark vertical stripes on orange-brown fur with a lighter underside. It is an apex predator, primarily preying on ungulates such as deer and wild boar. It is territorial and generally a solitary but social predator, requiring large contiguous areas of habitat, which support its requirements for prey and rearing of its offspring. Tiger cubs stay with their mother for about two years, before they become independent and leave their mother's home range to establish their own.
  The tiger once ranged widely from the Eastern Anatolia Region in the west to the Amur River basin, and in the south from the foothills of the Himalayas to Bali in the Sunda islands. Since the early 20th century, tiger populations have lost at least 93% of their historic range and have been extirpated in Western and Central Asia, from the islands of Java and Bali, and in large areas of Southeast and South Asia and China. Today's tiger range is fragmented, stretching from Siberian temperate forests to subtropical and tropical forests on the Indian subcontinent and Sumatra.
context_section_description: The tiger has been one of the big five game animals of Asia. Tiger hunting took place on a large scale in the early 19th and 20th centuries, being a recognised and admired sport by the British in colonial India as well as the maharajas and aristocratic class of the erstwhile princely states of pre-independence India. A single maharaja or English hunter could claim to kill over a hundred tigers in their hunting career. Tiger hunting was done by some hunters on foot; others sat up on machans with a goat or buffalo tied out as bait; yet others on elephant-back.
  Historically, tigers have been hunted at a large scale so their famous striped skins could be collected. The trade in tiger skins peaked in the 1960s, just before international conservation efforts took effect. By 1977, a tiger skin in an English market was considered to be worth US$4,250.
caption: A hunting party poses with a killed Javan tiger, 1941
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