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View all search resultsWorks underway to move two Javan rhinos to sanctuary
The Forestry Ministry, assisted by the Indonesian Military (TNI) and other partners, is launching a program to move two Javan rhinoceros to a sanctuary at Ujung Kulon National Park in Banten for research and conservation purposes for the critically endangered species.
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This handout still image taken from video footage on May 22, 2020, and released by the Environment and Forestry Ministry on Sept. 20, 2020, shows a male Javan rhinoceros calf named Luther (left) in Ujung Kulon National Park in Banten. Two extremely rare Javan rhinoceros calves have been spotted in an Indonesian national park, boosting hopes for the future of one of the world's most endangered mammals. The rhino calves, a female named Helen and male called Luther, were seen with their mothers in footage taken from nearly 100 camera traps installed in Ujung Kulon National Park between March and August. (AFP/Handout/Environment and Forestry Ministry )
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he Forestry Ministry is launching an effort to relocate a pair of Javan rhinoceros to a sanctuary as part of the conservation effort to save the species, which has been seeing its population in the wild dwindling mostly due to poaching.
After years of assessment with researchers and various institutions, the ministry picked a pair of rhinoceros currently living in the wild at the Ujung Kulon National Park in Banten to be moved to the Javan Rhino Study Conservation Area, located within the vicinity of the national park , for research and conservation purposes.
The effort was part of our species' “ecological repentance”, according to Forestry Minister Raja Juli Antoni, as human activities have diminished the Javan rhino’s home range, or the area where the animal lives and moves on a periodic basis.
“I think it is our moral, social and political responsibility together to make sure that our future generations still have Javan rhinos 50, 100, 200 years from now or even forever,” Raja said during the launching ceremony for the relocation effort in Jakarta on Friday.
The Forestry Ministry’s Natural Resources and Ecosystems Director General Satyawan Pudyatmoko said the relocation might take a long time, as they need to allow the rhinos to adapt to their new environment, which will be made similar to their old habitat, as well as drive them to their cages to be transported to the sanctuary.
“Javan rhinos are shy, sensitive to stress and hard to be approached by humans. So we can’t really force them [to move],” Satyawan said.
Accelerating reproduction
