For the second time in the year 2013, the Ministry of Forestry Directorate General of Forest Protection and Nature Conservation (PHKA) is collaborating with partner institutions, such as, HarimauKita Forum, Zoological Society of London (ZSL) Indonesia, Fauna and Flora International (FFI) Indonesia and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), conduct SMART-RBM Patrol training for the habitat protection of the Sumatran tiger. The activities carried out in the Medan on November 11- 15, 2013, after previously implemented in Berbak National Park, Jambi in February 2013. The trainee staff, staff of the Leuser National Park, BBKSDA North Sumatra, Aceh provincial Forestry Office Staff and Forestry Office Staff representatives from all Aceh District.
The Sumatran tiger is the last Tiger sub-species left in Indonesia, after the Bali Tiger and Javan Tiger extinct. Currently, the Sumatran tiger population is more and more threatened by poaching and illegal trade of tiger parts of, as well as conflict with humans as a result of the increasing deforestations for the development interest.
One of the most threatening problems of preservation of the Sumatran tiger is poaching and habitat encroachment. In addition to the lack of human resources, supporting infrastructures and means-area of conservation areas which should be protected, resulting in the patrol conducted less touching problem in the field. Looking into the conditions in the field, area protection patrols become a priority that should be encouraged by all parties in the collaboration scheme.
The current collaborative cooperation have come to the effort applied to the SMART (Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool) database systems that can be integrated with RBM (Resort Based Manag...
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...y one or two people. The process of drafting the tally sheet through discussions conducted since August of 2012 by a small team which is a representation of the collaborative work between the Government and NGOS. A team mandated by the IV Annual Meeting Harimaukita Forum in Jambi July 2012 and strengthened in a meeting at the Peninsula Tower work in marathon. With Munawar Kholis (FFI Indonesia Program), Achmad Iding Haidir, Ine Wasila, Laurio Leonard (ZSL Indonesia Programme), Donny Gunaryadi (WCS Indonesia Program), Octafa Rini (FZS Indonesia Program), the great Hariyawan Wahyudi (HarimauKita Forum) and Nurman Hakim (Directorate KKBHL), this team did a study and consultation with the parties. Intensive discussions with the Berbak National Park was conducted from January 2013 ago to compile comprehensive information formula but can be implemented at the field level.
Live theatre has been an important method of entertainment, self-expression and storytelling for centuries and still plays an important part in modern society for the same reasons however not all performances will successfully entertain, express or tell their story. The first and one of the most vital features of a successful show is the performances of the actors. To assess the performance of an actor there are many aspects that one must consider, I believe the most important to be vocalisation, physicalisation and characterisation. I will be critiquing The Bengal Tiger at the Bagdad Zoo, the story of the lives and afterlives of the people and animals caught in the middle of a war torn country, as performed by Persona Collective at the Annexe Theatre on the 10th-12th of April, on the performances of John Swindle and Amanda Phillips.
The National Geographic article “Siberian Tiger” by Joel Sartore highlights the escalating endangerment of Siberian tigers due to two main factors: destruction of the forests, and most prominently poaching (2014). Amur tigers primarily reside in eastern Russia, China, and North Korea, where they experience bitter climates, resulting in low human density and vast woodlands to roam (Sartore, 2014, p. 1). Yet, what seemingly appear to be advantages in reality are downsides, since timber industries expand and demolish these vast ecosystems (S...
Wolfe, Thomas. "The Child by Tiger." Perrine's Story and Structure. Tenth edition. Ed. Thomas R Arp. Australia: Thompson Heinle, 2002,
An important topic is being discussed and it concerns hospice care. Hospice care is patient/family centered program which provides compassionate, professional, state-of-the-art physical, emotional, and spiritual care and support for people facing life-limiting illnesses. Indeed, there are many opinions about hospice care. However, by most measures of benefit and cost, hospice has been a successful experiment in end-of life care (Lessons from the Hospice Benefit, 2017, Pg. 58). As a result, I believe that hospice care is very beneficial to society.
Although they were legal laws to protect the orangutans in Indonesia since 1931, they are still being captured from the wild and kept in houses as status symbols. In some regions, the Sumatrans were hunted for food. Research by traffic, the global wildlife monitoring network shows that the lack of the illegal profit taking causes a serious hazard to orangutans. Female orangutans give birth only to one infant at a time, to either every eight or every nine years. Scientists estimate that only 1% of females orangutans have been l...
When animals are voluntary or involuntary let into the wild many native species can become threatened by animals that, in the foreign ecosystem, have no natural predators. The ecosystem from which an animal comes can be damaged by the severe depletion of that species. Today there are more tigers in captivity then there are in the wild in Asia (Slater 106). Exotic animals can also feast on species to a point of extinction if there are no natural predators to maintain the wild exot...
Bengal tigers, also known as the Panthera tigris tigris has been classified by the (IUCN)- The International Union for Conservation of Nature, as one of the many subspecies that are vulnerable for extinction & is listed as endangered . These tigers are teetering on a tightrope of their existence. It has been stated that an approximation of 2000 still remains lingering in the wild. Fewer than 4,000 are left the in world either in the wild or held captive. About 7% of the tiger’s habitats remain , as they are continuing to be perished. This has taking a huge toll on not only for the tiger population but also the whole ecosystem itself; disturbing the ecological balance as it puts other species at risk. The extinction of Bengals will lead to a decline in natural resources, climate change, co-extinction of other species. Despite the problem of Bengals vanishing off the face of earth, the federal government of India doesn't ceases to take any huge responsibility for this subspecies going into extinction. These majestic beasts are located in areas surrounding Bangladesh...
What it looks like: Siberian tiger is the largest and most rare of all members of the cat family. This cat is 8-10 feet long, excluding their 25-38 inch rattling tail. This species of tiger weighs 400-700 pounds. Like all members of the tiger family, males are significantly larger than females.
...ent natural forest as well as non-forest formations that provide PNG with major values and benefits. Namely, the landscape yields bountiful benefits sources of financial, environmental, and social benefits and values. These major benefits in turn attract a distinctive group of stakeholders; namely, foreign investors, local government, and environmentalist, each of which view the landscape’s values from utterly different standpoints. The difference in perspective among these different stakeholders brings forwards the urgent need for these groups to adopt more collaboratively rooted managerial effort. This in turn will result in well-voiced dialogues to take place among theses different stakeholders groups. Ultimately, these dialogues will to moderate the gap between these groups as they all move forward towards a prosperous-developed-sustainable Papua New Guinea.
Sabah wildlife is in trouble. Many of the animals found in Sabah, Malaysia Borneo exits no where else on earth. It is mostly because of the local hunting culture and illegal wildlife activities. Indigenous people have been hunting for generations. Only 100 years ago, Bornean Headhunters were still in action. Already this year we lost two species of rhinoceros in the world. The West African Black Rhino, and Javan Rhino of Vietnam (source: The Atlantic Wire). There are no Sumatran rhinos left in the wild in the Malaysian state of Sabah, confirmed Masidi Manjun, the Tourism Culture and Environment Minister. In 2008, conservationists estimated there were around 50 rhinos in the stare. Five years later, it dropped that estimate to just ten. Now,
Picture this- you live the first few years of your life happy with your family. You live in a nice house, your family is healthy, and you have a nice community of people around you. Then, out of nowhere, you are captured. You are scared- you do not know where you are, where you are going, or where your family is. After what seems like an eternity, you wake up in a small, dirty cage. The cage is just big enough for you to stand and walk eight paces. The cage is littered with trash and is just terrible smelling. You are alone, with nothing to do all day except for sit or sleep. You are hungry too; you have not been fed in a day or two. The only thing left to eat is the trash that bystanders throw into your cage. Obviously, this does not happen to humans in this time in America. But it is, however, happening to thousands of animals in Indonesia’s largest zoo. Animals are captured and are forced to live in the zoo’s harsh conditions, where they are overcrowded, underfed, and neglected. The Surabaya Zoo of Indonesia is a horrendous zoo with terrible conditions, and should be closed down due to the mistreatment of the zoo’s animals.
Currently, Giant Pandas are highly endangered with only 1,600 living freely in the wild and roughly 300 living in zoos or breeding centers. This low number of existing pandas means the species has a relatively high risk of becoming extinct. The pandas reside mostly in China around the basin area of Yangtze, which poses a major problem, because this area is currently one of China’s most thriving regions with constant destruction and new development. Therefore, the bears are pushed into small areas without the living conditions they are accustomed to. The pandas are continuously fighting for their lives in result of habitat loss, low reproduction rate, food shortage, and poaching.
Loss of biodiversity is an environmental issue that is causing a lot of global concern. Some of the main causes for loss in biodiversity are alteration of habitats, increasing levels of pollution and human population growth. There are measures that are being taken worldwide to prevent loss of biodiversity. Many wildlife sanctuaries have been built worldwide to preserve the lives of various endangered species. However, it is important to remember that every individual has a role in the protection of wildlife and biodiversity. Every human being should play his part of the role by following simple rules such as stopping others from the hunting of endangered species, preventing deforestation, encouraging reforestation and creating awareness among fellow human beings.
Aravind Adiga in his debut novel The White Tiger, which won the Britain’s esteemed Booker Prize in 2008, highlights the suffering of a subaltern protagonist in the twenty first century known as materialism era. Through his subaltern protagonist Balram Halwai, he highlights the suffering of lower class people. This novel creates two different India in one “an India of Light and an India of Darkness” (Adiga, p. 14). The first one represents the prosperous India where everyone is able to dream a healthy and comfortable life. The life of this “Shining India” reflects through giant shopping malls, flyovers, fast and furious life style, neon lights, modern vehicles and a lot of opportunities which creates hallucination that India is competing with western countries and not far behind from them. But, on the other side, the life nurtures with poverty, scarcity of foods, life taking diseases, inferiority, unemployment, exploitation and humiliation, homelessness and environmental degradation in India of darkness.
(2) All the economically important organisms in protected areas should be identified and conserved as protected areas are an extremely important part of programs to conserve biodiversity and ecosystems, mainly for sensitive habitats. (3) Species in critical habitats should be identified and safeguarded. (4) Priority should be given at its outmost level to preserve ecosystems which appear to be unique. (5) There should be sustainable utilisation of natural resources. (6) International trade in wild life should be prohibited and highly regulated. (7) The poaching and hunting of wildlife should be prevented as far as practicable. For example in Assam on horned rhinos are facing extinction on account of poachers trading them at an international level for monetary gains. (8) Care should be taken for the development and improvement of reserves and protected areas. (9) Efforts should be made to reduce the level of pollutants in the environment which causes an adverse