Elephant Trapped In The Wells In Way Kambas NP, Lampung
March 31, 2008 Posted on Wildlife

A baby elephant was trapped in the well in Way Kambas NP on 6th March 2007 by the closing wells team. It is located near Braja Yekti village or about 12 km fro elephant training center. The baby elephant female, approx 3 years old, 500 kg, fell to the 3 meter old well and guess stayed in well during 7-10 days. Her condition was really bad, severe dehydration, wound around the body and lacerated wound on leg, paralysis in hind legs and can't standing. WCS and the partner of WKNP rescued this female by using truck form the well and also tame elephant.

Since June 2007, WCS have closed some of the well in those area, but it stopped in November 2007. With our limited budget, we did only 213 wells. Right now, there are about 2500-3000 well in the southern part of WKNP and also about 500-800 wells in the northern part.

Mining In Conservation Zone
November 07, 2007 Posted on Wildlife

Activists against mining in conservation zone

- October 26, 2007

Jongker Rumteh, The Jakarta Post, Manado

Environmentalists in North Sulawesi warn traditional gold mining activities pose a threat to the Bogani Nani Wartabone conservation zone.

They say the conservation zone, in Bolaang Mangondow regency, North Sulawesi, is the largest repository in the province of local floral and fauna.

The zone's traditional role, they say, is under threat because of a rise in gold mining in the area, particularly after the local legislative council moved to legalize the mining activities.

Green Group Calls For Crackdown On Turtle Traders
November 07, 2007 Posted on Wildlife

JAKARTA (JP): Environmentalists from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) in North Sulawesi are concerned about the illegal trade in protected turtles at markets in the provincial capital Manado.
 

They called on the police to take action against those involved in the illegal practice.
 

The coordinator of the WCS Indonesia Sulawesi program, John Tasirin, said in a press statement a joint team tasked to monitor the illegal trade in protected animals found that protected hawkbill turtles were freely traded in Madado markets.

New Species? Magicicada In Binerean
November 07, 2007 Posted on Wildlife

Magicicada is the genera for the red eyed cicadas. As most of the cicadas, their wings are transparent. In Tanjung Binerean, North Sulawesi, where WCS Indonesia Program has started a maleo nesting ground protection project, a red eyed cicada with cryptic, non-transparent wings was found dead on the ground. A new species?

 

 Unfortunately, it is out of focus.

 

John Tasirin

Konservasi Keanekaan Hayati Sulawesi
November 07, 2007 Posted on Wildlife

Johny Tasirin, Manado, 31 Oktober 2007

 

Sulawesi adalah pulau yang sangat berharga bagi konservasi biologi karena memiliki tingkat endemik* yang tinggi.

Ada 165 jenis hewan mamalia yang endemik Indonesia, hampir setengahnya (46%) ada di Sulawesi. Dari 127 jenis mamalia yang ditemukan di Sulawesi, 79 jenis (62%) endemik. Hanya di daratan Sulawesi tercatat ada 233 jenis burung, 84 diantaranya endemik Sulawesi. Jumlah ini mencakup lebih dari sepertiga dari 256 jenis burung yang endemik Indonesia. Sulawesi didiami oleh sebanyak 104 jenis reptilia, hampir sepertiganya atau 29 jenis adalah jenis endemik. Itu berarti, dari 150 reptilia yang tercatat endemik di Indonesia, seperlimanya ada di Pulau Sulawesi.

Semenanjung utara Sulawesi (tanah Minahasa, Totabuan dan Gorontalo) merupakan kawasan terpenting di Sulawesi. Kawasan ini didiami oleh 89 atau sekitar 86% dari 103 jenis burung endemik di Sulawesi dan pulau-pulau sekitarnya. Pernahkah anda membayangkan bahwa ada sebanyak 38 jenis tikus endemik Sulawesi. Hampir setengahnya (45%, 17 jenis) ada di semenanjung utara Pulau Sulawesi. Semenanjung utara ini juga menjadi rumah dari 20 jenis kelelawar buah endemik Sulawesi. Itu berarti, sebagian besar (atau lebih dari 83% dari 24 jenis) kelelawar endemik Sulawesi terdapat di kawasan ini.