The Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae)

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The Story of Muli

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September 21 2015, a guard of Tambling Wildlife Nature Conservation (TWNC) reported he has seen a tigress carrying her wounded cub. She then leaving her 3-month-old female cub under the tree. 
When the rescue team arrived and took her cub, strangely, the mother tiger just watching them from far away, not protecting or aggressively attacking them as a mother normally do.

A medical exam revealed the cub was in critical condition, suffering from a maggot-infested abdominal wound that the team later determined was inflicted by another wild tiger, most probably from an invader male tiger who took over her father's teritory. It was a miracle she was alive.

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TWNC wildlife veterinarian Ari Yana, right, and tiger keeper Marizal, center, tending to Muli’s wounds when she was first taken in.

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Sumatra’s Tambling Wildlife Nature Conservation (TWNC) is a key site in our Tigers Forever Program—and a tiger haven with a zero tolerance policy toward poaching. So it was the safest place to rehabilitate Muli—and wildlife veterinarians and keepers at TWNC’s tiger rescue center spent 20 months doing just that. Following a strict protocol, Muli—whose name is the word for “girl” in the local Lampung dialect—had minimal human contact and was fed live prey to encourage hunting behavior. By the end of her time at the center, her wounds had healed and she had reached sexual maturity

on June 10 2017, Muli was finally released back in to the wild. She was healty and weighted at 75 kg at that time.

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TWNC Founder Tomy Winata and Commander of the Indonesia National Military General Gatot Nurmantyo releasing Muli into Tambling.

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Here is a Short video of Muli when she was being rescued

This  25-minute video, made by the big-cat rescue organization Panthera (in association with GoPro) is a remarkably engrossing and well photographed story of the rescue of Muli. Her story is embedded in a disgusting narrative about tiger poaching in Southeast Asia but also in a hearting tale of Panthera’s attempts to saving this magnificent cat. There’s also a sub-story of a poacher who, after serving four years in jail for his crime, became part of the tiger rescue team.

So far, the data show that Muli has stayed away from the villages and is moving safely into the wider protected landscape in search for her permanent territory.

Muli in the wild stalking her prey

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