IUCN’s world conservation organization inserts the Javanese elang into Endangered or threatened status. IUCN stated that the population of the Javanese eagle is very few and it will likely continue to be reduced due to the disorder in its native habitat. In addition to habitat damage, trading is also a real threat, which is about 30 to 40 tails traded in a year.
In 2019, Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK) calls the number of Javanese Eagles in the free nature of only 300-500 tails. The existence of carnivora’s current nyaris is mined by extinction. As a scaling (raptor), elang has an important role in a ecosystem as a top food chain that is a balancer in natural cycles.
Appointed from the concerns, PT Pertamina Geothermal Energy cooperated with BKSDA West Java and the Indonesia Raptor Forum instilled the establishment of the Kamojang Elang Conservation Center (PKEKEK). The conservation center located in Kamojang area, Samarang District, Garut Regency, West Java became one of the migration spots.
Aerial photo of the Kamojang Elang Conservation Centre on the Kamojang highlands, Garut, West Java.
Baliho depicts various types of elanges in front of the entrance of the Kamojang Elang Conservation Center in the Kamojang highlands, Garut, West Java.
With international standard conservation facilities, PKEK is equipped with veterinary clinics, quarantine cages, observation cages, rehabilitation cages, flying training enclosures, and educational display cages, and breeding cages. PKEK has an area of about 1,4 hectares. There are 12 types of elanges that are rehabilitated from the Javanese Elang, Bido Snake Elang, Brontok Elang, Tikus Elang, and Black Eagle. From 136 rehabilitated elang tail, as many as 82 tails are successfully released.
The framework of the process is carried out before the elang is released. Starting from the adjustment of the ecosystem in the cage with its original habitat to recover the basic behavior of the eagles as well as health and vitamin administration.
According to the Medical Liability and Rehabilitation of PKEK Kamojang Muhammad Fajar Hezah, although in PKEK there is a breeding cage but until now expands the elang through human intervention has not been deducting results. Therefore the efforts to release the elang to its habitat into the main solution to save their sustainability.
The fighter keeps monitoring the elang conditions in the Observation of the Kamojang Elang Conservation Center in the Kamojang highlands, Garut, West Java.
The poultry takes marmut and rat for the eagle feed in the Kamojang Elang Conservation Center in the Kamojang highlands, Garut, West Java.
Photo and text : Indrianto Eko Suwarso
See the elang ular bido (Spilornis cheela) with mice prepared in the Observation Cage of the Kamojang Elang Conservation Center.
Home on the bido snake (Spilnoris cheela bido) before it was released at the Kamojang Elang Conservation Centre Health Clinic in Kamojang’s highlands, Garut, West Java.
The medical responsible psychiatry provides vitamin injections when conducting a bido ular elang health examination (Spilnoris cheela bido) before released in the Health Clinic of the Kamojang Elang Conservation Center.
The bido snake elongation check (Spilnoris cheela bido) before released at the Kamojang Elang Conservation Centre Health Clinic.
Medical responsibilities examine the health of the bido snake (Spilnoris cheela bido) before released in the Health Clinic of the Kamojang Elang Conservation Center.
The poultry brought the cage containing the eagle into the car to be released into the Gunung Boarddayan area in the Kamojang Elang Conservation Center.
The poultry prepares the elang ular bido (Spilnoris cheela bido) from the cage in the Gunung Papandayan area, Garut, West Java.
Elang snake bido (Spilnoris cheela bido) flying between trees when released in the Gunung Papandayan area, Garut, West Java.
Editor : Prasetyo Utomo
