Indonesian Govt Urged to Pay Serious Attention to Javan Rhino - KOMPAS.com: "SURABAYA, KOMPAS.com - The government should pay serious attention to the survival of the Javan Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus) whose population has not increased over the past few years, an environmentalist said.
"The number of Javan Rhinos in the Ujung Kulon national park was around 20-40 heads in 2010," Singky Soewadji said here recently.
He expressed pessimism that the endangered animal’s population could increase in the coming years. "This is because the area of forested land in Indonesia has shrunk and is continuing to shrink."
Many habitats of rare animals had been converted into plantation areas, he said, adding that quite often plantation managers ordered the killings of endangered animals living in the forests. "Such a condition is disadvantageous for Indonesia because many of its rare animals will die.""
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