Wildlife Crimes Unit

Total 22 snares has been removed from Gunung Leuser National Park (GLNP) by WRU during monthly patrol on June 2010. WRU patrol is joint patrol between Wildlife Conservation Society-Indonesia Program with GLNP to reduce snares inside GLNP. All snares found are installed by villagers who lives in the border of national park. Patrol has been carried out in Tenggulun, Sei Betung, and Sekoci Resort.

All snares were designed for wild pig, but the snares also dangerous for other big mammals, such as tiger, deer, muntjak, and even elephant. The hunter often trap tiger with pig snare, then they will said that the snare just for wild pig and not for tiger. Fortunately, installing snare inside conservation area (such as GLNP) is strongly prohibited. So snare removal activity is urgent to do in hotspot of hunting. (dna)