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AMBI: The management of Berbak National Park Center in Tanjung Jabung Timur regency, Jambi, says that the electric fences in the neighboring village of Air Hitam Laut are threatening the local Sumatran tigers.

The park’s environment preservation and eco-tourism division head, Roman Fauzi, said that the electrified fences had killed at least two tigers in the last four months.

The villagers erected the fences to keep put wild boar from their crops.

“The fences are there to keep out the boars which destroy the people’s plantations. But the tigers, which also live there, and happen to come across the fences, end up victims too,” he said.

He said that the center did not have the authority to prohibit the use of electric fences.