Enggang Bird

Saturday, September 8th 2012, 09:29:00
The Great Smuggling
Again, 189 Part hornbill ivory Secured


PART hornbills: Officers BKSDA West Kalimantan and re-secure Supadio Airport Security 189 Part hornbill ivory, yesterday (7/9). Head West Kalimantan BKSDA Djohan UP showed the evidence secured. HARYADI / PONTIANAKPOST
PONTIANAK --- Smuggling Part hornbill ivory joint return thwarted officers from Pontianak Supadio Airport Security and Natural Resources Conservation Center West Kalimantan. This time the amount is very large, namely 189 Part hornbill ivory is packed in a cardboard box in the cargo airline, Thursday (6/9) at 7:15 pm.

Part of bird mascot of West Kalimantan Province, and then escorted to the BKSDA office for investigation. "Part hornbill ivory is packaged in two boxes containing 86 and 103 pieces of beak. Delivery using courier and travel through two different airlines, but the same goal ie to Jakarta, "said Head of Central Kalimantan Natural Resources Conservation, Main Djohan Perbatasari to reporters, yesterday (7/9) morning.

He said the alleged beaks of the birds came from Melawi District. Until now, there is still further investigation to find out the owner of half of the animals protected. Especially in order to uncover the relationship of smuggling hundreds of hornbills beak smuggling conducted by two female citizens of PRC (People's Republic of China) on August 9, 2012 last.

"We suspected smuggling was conducted by an international syndicate. Involve the local barons in the hunt hornbills are to be traded," said Djohan. According to him, the bird habitat was scattered in the jungle regions such as Kalimantan Melawi, Kapuas Hulu, Sintang, Sanggau, and Ketapang. Ivory hornbill species whose population is so small.

Hunting pressure and the illegal use of sharpened number of individual animals in the wild. "These birds, including protected species that can not be used for any purpose," due diligence. According to Commander SPORC Bekade Kalbar, David Muhammad, the sender ID is bagged, now it will go into Part owner hornbill ivory to legal process. However, the process must be run according to procedure.

Violators of this provision, he said, would be charged under Article 21 paragraph (2) letter d Jo Article 40 paragraph (2) of Law No. 5 of 1990 on Conservation of Natural Resources and Ecosystems under penalty of 5 years imprisonment and a fine of 100 million . Furthermore, investigators SPORC KSDA Kalbar will conduct an examination of the expedition and travel companies receiving and transporting Part hornbills Ivory. "We'll continue to search for traces of the owner of this Part hornbill ivory," tegasmya.

Knowing Part hornbill ivory smuggling is still going very unfortunate number of environmental activists. They ask that the perpetrators be arrested immediately and given the maximum sentence to be a deterrent effect. "This smuggling attempt occurred in adjacent time. This means there is no deterrent effect and fear. Whereas previously the perpetrators have been arrested, "said Executive Director Walhi Kalbar, Anton P Widjaya.

According to Anton, hornbills smuggling bill that re-occur, indicating that demand is quite high hornbills beak. "If it is not high where maybe they will send it. Whereas previously there are people who were arrested because of this hornbill beak smuggling, "he said. Anton suspect, smuggling has been common and involves a large syndicate. "They dare to tell because they feel safe. May be used to send and get away, "he said. Anton urged the government to investigate this case to protect the endemic fauna of West Kalimantan are threatened with extinction.

According to Anton, the authorities should be able to trace who sent these hornbills. Tracking can be done by tracing the sender address. "It could use a fake address. But it can be checked back from his expedition company. I do not think it is difficult to trace, "he said. "We no longer want to hear promises again to protect hornbills. But the reality is a lot going on (hunting). So do not just caught at the airport, but also the habitat monitoring, "he added.

Success in such workers seized half Anton said at once implies the failure of agencies involved in maintaining hornbills in their habitat. "If caught at the airport means that previously existed mobilization, there is a series of sales, from the village and up to the buyer," he said. Going forward, there needs to be done tightening supervision in the field. The government also needs to do some research to find out how many burungenggang current population. Currently there is no definite number of hornbills population in West Kalimantan. Having known how many, and how much reduction, then try to look for solutions to preserve these hornbills.

"It should be more concrete rescue. So far than orangutans, hornbills rescue still not very concerned, "he said. A similar proposed West Kalimantan Programme Manager, WWF-Indonesia Hermayani Son. Hermayani encourage parties to track the syndicate poaching and illegal wildlife trade. The hunt hornbills in addition to potentially eliminate the protected species richness was also considered to have abused the entire community of West Kalimantan. "Because we know this is the mascot of West Kalimantan. We do not want to lose the mascot of West Kalimantan, "he said.

Legal Process
Meanwhile, the conference yesterday, also expressed BKSDA two cases of suspected developmental Part 96 hornbill ivory Aug. 9. Two suspects docket citizen of Chinese origin that has been sent to the Attorney General of West Kalimantan. Currently, the suspects are still deposited in Rutan Class IIa penanahannya River Kingdom after obtaining an extension of prosecutors' detention for 40 days from 30 August to 8 October.

Head West Kalimantan BKSDA Djohan Main Wahyudi promised to improve supervision and increase the personnel and coordinate with the Indonesian ports and airports to prevent and Pontianak Supadio narrow smuggling wildlife plants using these lines. "I appeal to the public to immediately stop the hunting of hornbill ivory. To avoid extinction in West Kalimantan's mascot, "he said.