Susun Strategi Konservasi Macan Tutul, Kemenhut Petakan Yang Terisolasi Dari Populasi

Illustration. Panthera pardus melas or leopard, one of the animals trading illegal animals. (Between)

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Forestry (Kemenhut) has developed a Javan leopard conservation strategy or the Panthera Pardus melas, including by utilizing the conservation area for areas outside the conservation area.

Director General of Natural Resources and Ecosystem Conservation (KSDAE) of the Ministry of Transportation Satyawan Pudyatmoko explained, a survey by the Ministry of Transportation with the Indonesian SINTAS Foundation so far identified the presence of these protected animals in six of the seven landscapes that have so far been analyzed through camera traps (camera trap).

He said the endangered animal population was spread across several landscapes, some experienced a decrease in the number but some experienced an increase.

"In the management of leopards, because they have a fairly wide home range and are located in many landscapes and in Law Number 32 there will be such a thing as a preservation area, we are trying to map which ones are really extinct and isolated from other populations, which ones are extinct but there is still a corridor, there is a connection," he said after an explanation of the development of the Java leopard population survey in Jakarta, Tuesday, February 18, which was confiscated by Antara.

He said about the follow-up to the management of the leopard.

"Usually there will be recovery later, there is a dispersal from one sub-population to the local population that is extinct, later there will develop again. This is also one of the strategies that we have compiled," said Satyawan.

He referred to the privacy area which is one of the new essences in the revision of Law Number 32 of 2024 concerning Amendments to Law Number 5 of 1990 concerning Biological Natural Resources and Their Ecosystems (KSDAHE).

One of the essences of the changes in the latest KSDAHE Law, namely attention to conservation activities outside the area of natural asylum (KSA), natural conservation areas (KPA) and conservation areas in waters, coastal areas, and small islands (KKPWP3K) through regulation of the preservation area.

This area is intended to support the support function of life support or the survival of biological natural resources and their ecosystems.

The Javan leopard population survey, which is in the endangered category on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List, has been started by the Ministry of Transportation and the Indonesian SINTAS Foundation since last year. The survey was also conducted with the support of a number of business actors from the private sector.

The survey, which uses camera traps, is planned for 21 landscapes throughout Java. A total of 10 locations have been installed with camera traps with seven of them being analyzed to identify the population.