Is This A Javan Tiger Following Forrest Through The Jungle? | Extinct or Alive?

this guy gets more results in a part of an episode than the entire finding bigfoot series

I'm Indonesian, I live in Java, and I'm really happy that someone still has hope that the Javan Tiger is still roaming Java. There are countless accounts of Javan Tiger sightings all throughout Java and they are even still continuing until now. Although there are many sightings, there is a lack of scientific data to back up all the sightings and that is why IUCN declared them an extinct species. . Edited: Thanks for all of the likes, I never knew my comment would get these many likes

You think maybe Forrest could search for my dad? He’s been “extinct” since I was 6. 😔

I hope it's not extinct. Looking for a tiger in the night is a very brave action. Thanks

I'm always hyped to hear of the possibility of any extinct animal actually still being out there somewhere 😊

Forrest is such a humble person, ya gotta love em

When i think about this tiger, i become angry, because it was hunted down by humans. I hope that 1 or 2 or even more still lives today.

Imagine going to find an allegedly extinct animal just to have it find you first..

To think that Tigers became endangered because of being hunted down by people

Imagine having the last name Cheeseman. How awesome would that be

If they found unequivocal proof of an extant Javan Tiger population, it would be one of the biggest discoveries of the last hundred years. Apex predator, iconic and world renowned animal, and the immense level of conservation it could offer. I’ve been to Sukamade and the surrounding area before - Meru Betiri National Park. It’s a really beautiful and surprising corner of the island. When you’re in there, it’s truly hard to believe you’re on Java. Besides the remoteness of it and scenic beauty, I was struck by how there was a “buffer zone” around much of the eastern flank of the park. Basically a mixed use forest full of rubber and teak if I remember correctly. It is by no means a naturally occurring forest environment, but it helps to keep the ecosystem deeper behind it much better protected for the animals living there. That’s the good news. Unfortunately, the park is still under immense pressure. Much of it is due to expanding agriculture from an ever-growing human population. It just comes with the territory in Java. While I was there, another rumor that was floating around was that none other than Donald J. Trump was working with a Javanese investment conglomerate (no corruption there) to purchase a large chunk of land to the east of the park where much of the aforementioned buffer zone is. For a golf resort. Now there’s a certain level of accessibility that needs to be present in order to harvest teak and rubber. Paved roads and what not. But when you’re building a huge resort, that’s just not going to cut it; they’d use existing roads to make more and open the way for major construction crews to come in and build. The level of disruption this would have on the buffer zone would be severe. And I’m afraid that if something like this were to take place, it would disrupt far more than just the buffer zone, if you catch my drift. It’s a hypothetical right now and Trump being involved was hearsay at the time (about 5 years ago when I was last there). But there seems to be an interest in that large chunk of land to the east of the park. It doesn’t hurt that some of the most scenic beaches you’ve ever seen are down there too. If a Javan tiger population were to be confirmed in the area, I would expect that development would be all but completely off the table. It would throw Indonesia and the plight of its biodiversity into the global spotlight. The chance for a tiger species to rebound from extinction would be far too great of a success story for local and national government to pass up. The conservation efforts could be unparalleled in recent Indonesian history. And that could be a huge deal not just for that corner of Java, but perhaps for the entire island of Java. I’m sure powerful families and big companies would put up a fight, though. Money over absolutely everything else, right? But hell, I wouldn’t mind reading about Teflon Don getting his arm ripped off by a Javan tiger on the back 9. Just as long as the cat got away.

I like Forrest, I believe he is different than any other wildlife expert out there. There's something different about him, he seems genuine and passionate for what he does. And he has a real mission that deals with the real world.

5:59 I think that's the key problem, that Forrest often points out. When the scientific community declares an animal to be extinct, you automatically imagine that they have a sound basis for it, that they have done all the pertinent and well-funded research, and that they went through various testimonies, dismissing them as unreliable. After all, they are the scientific community, so there is no point in chasing a ghost animal, right? Meanwhile, you realise that it's usually the other way around: no well-funded, extensive studies, plenty of very plausible testimonies and first and foremost, an overwhelming amount of vast and lush vegetation, and complex terrain, where such animal could easily hide. Therefore there is no real scientific basis, to reasonably declare the animal extinct, just because we cannot find it in the outskirts of Sydney or in the suburbs of Jakarta. I hope that Forrest and others will keep showing how unfounded, and often careless, declarations about animals extinction can be.

Try to find the extinct Caspian Tiger. There is still a chance that it survives in remote places. The Piandj River area between Afghanistan and Tajikistan was a stronghold of the Caspian tiger until the late 1960s. The latest sighting of a tiger in the Afghan-Tajik border area dates to 1998 in the Babatag Range. In Turkey, a pair of tigers was allegedly killed in the area of Selçuk in 1943. Several tiger skins found in the early 1970s near Uludere indicated the presence of a tiger population in eastern Turkey. Questionnaire surveys conducted in this region revealed that one to eight tigers were killed each year until the mid-1980s, and that tigers likely had survived in the region until the early 1990s. Due to lack of interest, in addition to security and safety reasons, no further field surveys were carried out in the area. In Kazakhstan, the last Caspian tiger was recorded in 1948, in the environs of the Ili River, the last known stronghold in the region of Lake Balkhash.

It's really annoying when you have "Forrest", "Jungle" and "through" in the same sentence

I saw one - 10 metres away - in 1980. On the rough road that leads from the main road -= up to the village of Cimande; near to the city of Bogor (west Java). I was living in that village for 3 months .... and the Tiger was lying down on the road just before sunset. As I approached from round a bend - it got up and leapt off the road into the jungle at the roads edge. Amazing sight.

Glad to see one alive again It's been a whole year since i see it my self, and now u show some of it, and im sure soon, they Will came back from extinction Last time i see it in jungle near someone farm, i know it's a super rarest Javan tiger

Heat seeking drone with a tranquilizer gun? wink wink

kinda minor compared to the things this guy does for the planet but seeing him wrap his lunches in leaves when he goes this remote is great.

That was awesome. Javan Leopards are pretty damn small too, has to be a Javan Tiger.