Seminar on the Breeding Prospects of Timor Deer in IPB
Commercial hunting in Indonesia is not as yet developed. Until now the government has established 15 hunting parks throughout Indonesia with a total area of 247,397.7 hectares in addition to hunting gardens and hunting grounds. But the entire region has not been managed optimally. If developed properly, a commercial hunting will bring in foreign exchange and improve the local economy as hunters are now no longer interested in hunting wild boars, which is not attractive and has no trophy.
Therefore, the Indonesian Wildlife Conservation Foundation (IWF) and the Center for Environmental Research (PPLH) IPB formed a partnership by holding the seminar on the breeding prospects of Timor deer (Cervus timorensis) as the hunting stocks (14 / 4) at the IICC.
Timor deer is one of Indonesia deer that can adapt very easily to the environment and is very easy to breed by the community. The resulted breeds of deer can serve as the stock of animals for hunting in hunting parks, gardens and grounds.
"The purpose of this seminar is to obtain information from various stakeholders about Timor deer breeding, which is potential to become animals for hunting and develop the existing hunting sites into attractive hunting regions which are both nationally and internationally well known," said Chief Executive, Prof. Dr . Ir. Dedi Soedharma, DEA.
Director General of Forest Protection and Nature Conservation (PHKA): Area of Indonesia’s Forests Only One Third Left
Attending and giving a keynote speech in this seminar, Director General of Forest Protection and Nature Conservation (PHKA), Ir. Darori, MM said that at present the Indonesia’s forest area remains only 60 million hectares out of 120 million hectares.
"The changing functions of both legal and illegal forests have caused our land size to be only about 60 million hectares. For the illegal land change we have the data, for example in Central Kalimantan there are 7 million hectares and in East Kalimantan 5 million hectares converted to Industrial Plantation Forest (HTI), plantation and mining without the approval of the Minister of Forestry," he said.
According to him, this happened because local governments do not manage them well so that they are encroached upon and converted to plantations and mining. If the losses are calculated, for one province only (Central Kalimantan), the State has already lost 140 trillion rupiah. Apart from Central Kalimantan, according to him, the forest destruction in East Kalimantan has the potential loss of Rp32 trillion and Rp100 trillion in West Kalimantan. "This requires immediate actions; otherwise our forests will run out. We have made cooperation with KPK (Corruption Eliminating Commission) and submitted the data," he said. (Mtd)
