Along with the opening of the forest area for plantations and mining in the forest area of Aceh, increasing the problem between humans with elephants whose habitat is increasingly narrowing and sophisticated.
Just for example, it is often a group of wild elephants that enter the human area that damages plants in plantations belonging to the citizens. During this wild elephant is always considered a destructive animal inhales of a variety of studies that have been done, elephants always passes through the path they ever missed a half of the year ago, meaning a new garden or settlement opened earlier is the crossing area of elephants.
According to the data from the World Wildlife Fund (WWWF), the number of Sumatra elephants is now recorded only about 2.400 to 2.800 tails only, from 5,000 tails in 1985. The amount continues to decrease due to the hunt of ivory, poisoned and the dignity of the opening of a new land that causes the habitat of endangered elephants.
Pawang elephant (mahout) conducts wild elephant patrols in the Conservation Response Unit (CRU) village Bunin, Serbajadi Subdistrict, East Aceh, Aceh.
Pwang elephant (mahout) patrols of wild elephants in the Conservation Response Unit (CRU) village of Bunin, Serbajadi Subdistrict, East Aceh, ConservationPaman elephant pawang (mahout) prepares a benign elephant before committing wild elephant patrol unit (CRU) Desa Bunin, SerbaPabajadi District, Eastern Aceh, Eastern Aceh, Eastern Aceh.
One of the efforts to avoid conflicts between elephants with human beings by placing benign elephants to dribble wild elephants when entering plantations or settlements. Nature Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA) Aceh for example has submitted its benign elephants that are currently located in Saree, Large Aceh, to Conservation Response Unit (CRU) Serbajadi, East Aceh to help cope with the disorders of wild elephants by dissolving at wild elephant disorders.
According to BKSDA conflicts of animals with humans in the region occurs due to elephants have lost forests to obtain food. BKSDA and related institutions will provide about 150 thousand hectares of land for the wild elephant food area in Aceh Jaya. It is estimated that there are dozens of wild elephants in Aceh Jaya, these elephants must be protected as well as elephant conflicts with humans must be overcome, one of them by providing its food area.
Photo and Text: Syifa Yulinnas
As of elephants (RU Aceh).
