ProFauna Wildlife Trade Campaign

Frame Work 2005-2009

Contents

• Objectives
• Background Information
• Several facts on Indonesian wildlife trade

 

Objectives:

1. To increase public awareness not to purchase or keep endangered wildlife
2. To urge Government to set up legislation and to enforce the law against trade in protected wildlife
3. To spread information to the public that the trade in endangered wildlife is cruel, criminal and it is anti conservation.
4. To increase the Indonesian Government’s involvement in the problem of trading in endangered species, the illegal smuggling and export of wildlife overseas.

Background Information:

Trade in wildlife in Indonesia has become a serious threat to the survival of endangered species and their conservation following the destruction of their habitats. Wildlife trade is a major threat as more than 95% of traded wildlife is as a direct result of hunting from the wild. It is guaranteed that 100% of traded primates are from direct poaching and are not captive bred.

Several facts on Indonesian wildlife trade:

1. To increase public awareness not to purchase or keep endangered wildlife
2. Approximately 100,000 hornbill and curved beak avians/birds are trapped each year in the wild in Papua, including the highly endangered King Cockatoo or Kakatua Raja (Probosciger atterimus), Black headed Lory/Nuri kepala hitam (Lorius lory) and Yellow Crested Cockatoo/Kakatua jambul kuning (Cacatua galerita).
3. At least 15,000 curved beak birds are trapped each year in the North Moluccas (Maluku Utara) including the white Cockatoo (Cacatua alba) which is virtually extinct.
4. In 1999, around 27,000 turtles are slaughtered each year in Bali for satay ( a food delicacy) and their shells used to make cheap ornaments for tourists. Although there has been a degree of success in fighting and reducing the trade by 80%, the illegal smuggling of the turtles to Bali still takes place.
5. Each year 1000 Kalimantan (Borneo) Orangutans are smuggled to Java and overseas.
6. To capture the Orangutan babies, the hunters will kill the mothers. At least one Orangutan dies for each baby taken.
7. At least 2500 Javanese Lutungs (Trachypithecus auratus) or Long black tail monkeys each year are hunted for illegal trade and for meat.
8. At least 3000 Javanese Gibbons known as Owa dan Siamang (Hylobates Moloch) are hunted each year for domestic wildlife trade or to be smuggled overseas.
9. 40% of trapped wild animals die as a result of cruelty and pain inflicted during their capture, transportation, cramped cages and inadequate food and water.
10. 60% of animalss illegally traded in the local wildlife markets are from endangered species and which are by suppose to be protected by law.
11. 70% of primates and cockatoos kept as pets suffer from physical and behavioral problems.

The wildlife trade is flourishing as a consequence of the lack of enforcement of the existing wildlife conservation laws and by the public’s uneducated habit of keeping exotic wildlife as pets.

ProFauna’s survey shows that almost 100% primates and curbed beaks birds/avian kept as pets do not receive food or caging suitable for their natural needs.