The Ngo’s have failed to save the Tripa Peat swamp forest, one of the last habitat of the Sumatran Orangutan, turning this fiasco into a fund raising campaign by rescuing a few Orangutans.
Improvised strategies can’t work. It is important to have good intelligence and an ability to anticipate. Ngo people are not good at this and refuse help from people who have a better understanding of the situation. The Tripa campaign started several years ago, what did they do during all this time ? Before the fires started to destroyed the remaining forest, they seemed confident that they had succeeded in protecting the area. Nobody was in the field to see that forest destruction had resumed. They discovered too late that a forest clearing permit had been given illegally by the former Aceh Governor. This is clearly bad intelligence and incompetence.
Now, while they are all busy at exploiting the situation with fund razing opportunists like Green Peace and friends, the eyes of the planters and loggers are looking toward the next targets: The last peat swamp forests and Orangutan habitats of the Singkil region … and our Ngo friends will be too late to react as always …
Is the future of conservation in the hands of those who were responsible of destroying the forest? The big NGO’s have become so inefficient and corrupt that private companies like APP are taking over conservation of some habitats and biodiversity in Sumatra.
Catching Tigers and translocating them to forests where they can leave in peace away from humans is not “Green washing” as Green Peace says, it’s good wildlife management.
For me, I prefer working with those who achieve concrete results …. Tiger Release
What are the NGO’s doing ?
An other part of the Bukit 30 forest ecosystem is at the moment being logged with impunity by Barito Pacific. Why are WWF, Green Peace and others turning a blind eye on the on going destruction of this important habitat for Tigers, Elephants and other endangered species of Sumatran Biodiversity ?
APP has so far refused to get involved in more forest destruction around the Bukit Tigapuluh National Park. The truth is that the company is working with its suppliers and other stakeholders, including local NGOs to maintain the integrity and expand the Bukit30 National Park .
Do we need APP to accept to buy the pulpwood from Barito Pacific to make the NGO’s react ?
It took many years of “Photo traps” and research to finally come to the conclusion that the Javan Rhino was in critical condition. A fact that has always been evident regarding the number of Rhinos left and the size of its habitat.
Doing research is the easiest way to attract the sponsors attention, proposing concrete conservation strategies is more complicated and risky. It is why many NGO’s don’t take the risk and put their own survival first.
Time has been lost because of lack of cooperation and NGO’s politics. Finally a first step in improving the Rhino habitat has been initiated by YABI. Rhino conservation NGO’s have promised to finance the construction of a fence that would extend the Rhino habitat and make the animals safer from disturbances from people, cattle and Natural disasters.
Newsletters are telling the world that half of the money is available and appeals are being launched for the remaining US$ 300,000. How much longer the Rhinos will have to wait ?
Now there is a good news coming from an unlikely new comer in the conservation game. APP, a paper company who’s pulpwood suppliers have been accused of relentlessly converting a million of hectare of Indonesian forests into plantations has now realized that time has come to seriously contribute in saving the remaining endangered animals and their habitat. This initiative includes the Javan Rhino and it’s just a beginning.
The company made a first donation of US$ 300.000 and an MOU was signed with YABI and the Indonesian Forestry Ministry. NGO’s politics and egos tried to oppose this new initiative and put pressure to refuse this donation. Again losing precious time in controversy and discussions.
Fortunately, the Indonesian Forestry Ministry has officially accepted the APP donation ( immediately available ) of US$ 300,000 and instructed all parties involved to work together for building the fence and manage the extension and improvement of the Rhino habitat in Ujung Kulon .
APP will sign the final agreement with the Departement of Forestry/ Ujung Kulon National Park on May 10 2011.
Everybody has the duty to help conservation. Saving the wildlife and repairing the damage that we have done to Nature is not an exclusive activity performed only by NGO’s. Each individual, each company, each country has the duty to contribute according to it’s possibilities and responsibilities. This is the only way we will be able to move forward.
I am optimistic that the Javan Rhino new conservation initiative involving the NGO’s, the Public Sector and Government will start a new era where the only goal is to work together in harmony to save the Indonesian Wildlife.
Long Live the Javan Rhino.
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