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BENGKULU COUNCILLOR PROPOSES ISOLATING SUMATRAN TIGERS IN NAT'L PARK
Bengkulu, April 30 (ANTARA) - A Bengkulu provincial councillor has proposed to end the recurring conflicts between the Sumatran tiger and humans by isolating the animals in a specially designated area in the Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park (TNBBS).
Isolating all Sumatran tigers (panthera tigris) existing in Sumatra in a preserve in TNBBS is the best way to resolve the ongoing conflict between the protected species and humans, Tantowi Jauhari, a member of the the Bengkulu Provincial Legislative Council (DPRD), said here Thursday.
"We have received so many reports from people in Sumatra's interior regions who live in constant anxiety about the behavior of freely roaming tigers in or around their rural villages," he said.
The tigers had become a source of trouble to villagers because their habitats had been reduced by the activities of forest squatters, the opening of mines and plantations in forest areas. he said.
The animals were also under constant threat from hunters and locals trying to fight them off by setting traps for them, according to Jauhari.
Citing an example of tiger-human conflict, Jauhari said a tiger was recently killed by people in the Semidang Bukit Kabu region and its skin used as the cover of a mosque drum.
Later, many tigers appeared in the region and they attacked humans so frequently that the region's inhabitants eventually moved to safer places.
To put an end to the tiger-human conflict, Sumatran tigers now living in the wild all over Sumatra should be caught and put in a special reserve in the Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park, Jauhari said.
Meanwhile, Supartono of the Bengkulu Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA), commenting on Jauhari's proposal, said the idea was quite interesting but implementing it would not be as easy as it seemed.
"Humans can be easily ordered around, but can we do so with animals. Moreover, who will be responsible for the wild animals' care," he said.
Isolating all Sumatran tigers (panthera tigris) existing in Sumatra in a preserve in TNBBS is the best way to resolve the ongoing conflict between the protected species and humans, Tantowi Jauhari, a member of the the Bengkulu Provincial Legislative Council (DPRD), said here Thursday.
"We have received so many reports from people in Sumatra's interior regions who live in constant anxiety about the behavior of freely roaming tigers in or around their rural villages," he said.
The tigers had become a source of trouble to villagers because their habitats had been reduced by the activities of forest squatters, the opening of mines and plantations in forest areas. he said.
The animals were also under constant threat from hunters and locals trying to fight them off by setting traps for them, according to Jauhari.
Citing an example of tiger-human conflict, Jauhari said a tiger was recently killed by people in the Semidang Bukit Kabu region and its skin used as the cover of a mosque drum.
Later, many tigers appeared in the region and they attacked humans so frequently that the region's inhabitants eventually moved to safer places.
To put an end to the tiger-human conflict, Sumatran tigers now living in the wild all over Sumatra should be caught and put in a special reserve in the Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park, Jauhari said.
Meanwhile, Supartono of the Bengkulu Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA), commenting on Jauhari's proposal, said the idea was quite interesting but implementing it would not be as easy as it seemed.
"Humans can be easily ordered around, but can we do so with animals. Moreover, who will be responsible for the wild animals' care," he said.
