
Maje is sub-district in Bengkulu province and bordered with Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park. This area show that human wildlife conflict incidents are very high, …

Maje is sub-district in Bengkulu province and bordered with Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park. This area show that human wildlife conflict incidents are very high, include tiger and elephant. WRU (Wildlife Response Unit) WCS-Indonesia Program noted that tiger conflict happened in 2 villages; Air Bacang and Tanjung Aur since August 2009. WRU also noted that in May 2009, they were accepted and checked tiger coflict in Maje, but in different village. During 6 months (August – October 2009), 23 goats from 10 owners and 1 dog killed by 2 tigers in Tanjung Aur and Air Bacang. The conflict incidents located in forest production, at least 3-5 km from Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park. …

Wildlife Response Unit (WRU) was trained FKL (Kecamatan Environmental Facilitator) and PJOK (Responsible Activities Sub-District) about human-tiger conflict tecniques in Padang, West Sumatra.
Wildlife Conservation Society-Indonesia Program since 2008 established Green PNPM (Green Kecamatan Development Program) in Sulawesi, and will be continued in 4 provinces in Sumatra, include Aceh, North Sumatra, West Sumatra, and Bengkulu. In Sumatra, one of Green PNPM output is encouraging villagers to mitigate human-tiger conflict since the conflict is become big issue in Sumatra. …
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