The Seblat Elephant Conservation Centre (ECC) established in October 1992 by Indonesian government that be issued by Minister of Forestry, is a conservation area width 6865 hectares in the province of Bengkulu on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia.
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Rabu, 26 Januari 2011
Conservation Response Unit (CRU) is a team who works to protect the Seblat ECC area continually. CRU be composed of mahout (elephant keeper) and forest rangers who fight forest crime and with utilize existing captive elephants to protect the wild elephant population’s habitat. And before members of the CRU team got training about biodiversity monitoring techniques, human-wildlife conflict assessment and means of mitigating such conflicts, navigation in the field using GPS and satellite mapping, identifying and documenting wildlife crime, and operating field equipment. While on patrol, the CRU teams have recorded various types of forest crime, that are : illegal logging, land encroachment, wildlife hunting (poaching), and illegal drill for survey of coal mining. The CRU project was established by BKSDA Bengkulu and That is supported by International Elephant Foundation and project partner Fauna & Flora International – Sumatran Elephant Conservation Programme.
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