Orangutan habitat encroached Jambi Out

About 180,000 hectares of Sumatran orangutan living space in the vicinity of Bukit Tigapuluh National Park, Jambi, been encroached upon society. Illegal activity is still ongoing so that threaten the sustainability of wildlife conservation that.

Program Director of the Frankfurt Zoological Society (FZS)-which handles reintroduction of Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) in Jambi-Peter Pratje said, there is massive destruction of forests in the last eight years.

Illegal encroachment resulting in damage to 180,000 hectares from about 360,000 hectares of lowland forest block in the buffer zone of Bukit Tigapuluh National Park (BTNP). Regions with the status as production forests left by the concession holder is released orangutans living space for conservation.

Based on image analysis in 1985, Bukit Tigapuluh ecosystem covering 651,232 hectares still have forest cover as much as 95 percent, but in 2005 shrank to 77 percent. By 2010, forest cover remaining 49 percent of this region.

To ensure the survival of the Sumatran orangutan, the government needs to restore the forest in Bukit Tigapuluh ecosystem. "There are about 110,000 hectares of forest in the Bukit Tigapuluh ecosystem that can be saved by way of restoring the ecosystem. Conversion of forests to plantations will only threaten the existence of orangutans, "said Peter.

Sunday (27 / 2), eight orangutans confiscated from Aceh and Medan arrived in the Jambi to undergo reintroduction or introduction of return to live in the wild.

Orangutan Reintroduction Manager FZS Julius Paolo Siregar said all officers confiscated orangutans Center for Natural Resource Conservation in Medan will be trained in the station, before it released in mid-season fruit this year. One of them, Morgan, is still 1.5 years old. A total of 129 officers confiscated orangutans have been released back into the forest buffer around BTNP since 2002. (ITA)

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