Enjoy the Way Kambas National Park endangered mega fauna and other rare wildlife species caught in video. Find mother and baby of Sumatran rhino, challenging young male Sumatran tiger, big family of Sumatran elephant, funny Malayan sun-bear and curious Malayan tapir.
It was written by Janos Olah & Attila Simay in Birding Asia magazine, on 2007. Not only the great variety of the otherwise scarce and hard to-come-by species is what makes this national park world-famous, but also the relative ease in finding them. No other place in sumatra that has 4 species of Frogmouth. |
| Elephas maximus sumatranus |
In the implementation, ETC management gets various
problems. One of the issues that need to be immediately resolved is the
availability of feed with adequate quality and quantity. In the principle,
government has been provided budget for the procurement of feeds, but the
quality and quantity has been not fulfilled yet.
In ETC Way Kambas National Park (WKNP) the elephant get
food in two mechanisms, the grazing and additional feed from outside area. In
the dry season, the natural feed (grazing) will be decreased, and the
additional feed (coconut leaves) should be imported from afar. Making the
elephant food farm in ETC area is one of the main alternatives to sufficient of
elephants nutrition. Before the elephant
food farm are made, it is necessary to make protective canals for protect plans
from wildlife herbivore.
AleRT in collaboration
with WKNP and the Save Indonesia Endangered Species (SIES) support partner,
already excavates 2.8 hectare protective canal in ETC. The canal is 2x2 meters,
built surrounded 20 hectares of land that will be elephant food farm. A water
reservoir (that call Embung) between the canal area at large 40 x 20 meters and
depth 6 meters has been made. The resevoir function is to hold water in the
rain season and to be source of water during the dry season. This activity has
began in early November 2017 and finished on 26 December 2017. |
| the protective canals and water reservoir |
In Addition, we also have been made the protective canal
of young elephant areas. The canal was intended for keep young elephant from
visitor access that may carrier of any parasites. It is a prevention to keep
elephant healthy. Young elephant is highly potential parasites infection. Some
of young elephant was death it caused parasite infection.
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| Elephant protective canal |
After the activity, ALeRT expects that elephants health
and feed in the future can be fulfilled, thus elephants in ETC WKNP live in
welfare.
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