Sally Furniss
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Hunting grouse Threatens Ecosystem Mahakam
Sunday, 18 January 2009
SAMARINDA, SUNDAY - Hunting and trade of large-scale grouse Kembang (Dendrocygna arcuata) in the hinterland of Mahakam (East Kalimantan) is still happening. Although the grouse is not the type of rare animals, but the alleged decline in the population can cause the balance of ecosystems in the area.
Some residents of rural areas in the Mahakam Samarinda, Saturday confess that grouse hunting and trade is still going Kembang. Grouse Kembang Mahakam make rural areas, especially Malintang Lake (11,000 ha), Lake Jempang (15,000 ha) and Lake Semayang (13,000 ha) and small lakes in the area as a habitat.
"Traders are generally derived from Banjarmasin, local residents like less meat Kembang grouse," said Samedi, Mahakam rural residents. He menuturkan hunting rare birds that continue to occur because of demand from a number of meat traders are also high. Bird meat can be consumed as a poultry meat, such as chicken, duck and duck.
Kembang grouse meat traders to sell-stall stalls that sell the meat of animals that are protected. Pain Kembang grouse meat taste like meat, so there is a duck menggemarinya, but some do not like the smell of meat reasons dreadful.
How to catch wild grouse hunters Kembang way crawl or use a carrot grouse (grouse that is tame). "When the area to the hinterland is not long, the animals are still on the trail because of the high demand from traders Kembang grouse meat," said Hardy Purnama, one of the officers BKSDA (Conservation Center of Natural Resources) Kaltim when confirmed.
He explains that when the level exceeds the threshold arrest development, then this type will become extinct suspected, that in some ecologically time will come direct impact will be felt by tens of thousands of fishermen in the area of land and waters of the lake.
The impact of terancamnya preservation of grouse Kembang fishermen will be felt immediately, because the animals this motor functions as the productivity of the lake with the Mahakam spread grass seeds and provide nutrition to contribute to (feces) of the fish.
He will need to assess the rules of the population quota of Kembang grouse can be hunted in order not to disrupt the balance of ecosystem.
Researchers from the University of Amsterdam in 2004, that is, Gabriella Fredriksson with friends to have found evidence that there are activities and arrest grouse Kembang trade in a very large number of the three large lakes in the hinterland Mahakam.
The population at that time, many predicted, the reach of tens to hundreds of thousands of chickens, this is seen from the amount of the catch from the catcher Kembang grouse.
BKSDA data indicate that in 2004, there were three vendors grouse that employs more than 50 permanently catcher who came from Jakarta to the number of prisoner reach between 120,000 to 165,000 chickens per year.
While the number of grouse Kembang be arrested and that during the 17 months in 2005-2006 ranged 27,379 head. In the dry season (June-October) between 2005 and 2006 a decline of the catch, only 42.16 percent or tails of 6018.
Distribution of trade grouse is four groups catcher traders covering Samarinda, Bontang, Sangata, and Loa Kulu (East Kalimantan), while the distribution to the South Kalimantan region is to Banjarmasin, which is the largest recipient of 95 percent.
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Sunday, 18 January 2009
SAMARINDA, SUNDAY - Hunting and trade of large-scale grouse Kembang (Dendrocygna arcuata) in the hinterland of Mahakam (East Kalimantan) is still happening. Although the grouse is not the type of rare animals, but the alleged decline in the population can cause the balance of ecosystems in the area.
Some residents of rural areas in the Mahakam Samarinda, Saturday confess that grouse hunting and trade is still going Kembang. Grouse Kembang Mahakam make rural areas, especially Malintang Lake (11,000 ha), Lake Jempang (15,000 ha) and Lake Semayang (13,000 ha) and small lakes in the area as a habitat.
"Traders are generally derived from Banjarmasin, local residents like less meat Kembang grouse," said Samedi, Mahakam rural residents. He menuturkan hunting rare birds that continue to occur because of demand from a number of meat traders are also high. Bird meat can be consumed as a poultry meat, such as chicken, duck and duck.
Kembang grouse meat traders to sell-stall stalls that sell the meat of animals that are protected. Pain Kembang grouse meat taste like meat, so there is a duck menggemarinya, but some do not like the smell of meat reasons dreadful.
How to catch wild grouse hunters Kembang way crawl or use a carrot grouse (grouse that is tame). "When the area to the hinterland is not long, the animals are still on the trail because of the high demand from traders Kembang grouse meat," said Hardy Purnama, one of the officers BKSDA (Conservation Center of Natural Resources) Kaltim when confirmed.
He explains that when the level exceeds the threshold arrest development, then this type will become extinct suspected, that in some ecologically time will come direct impact will be felt by tens of thousands of fishermen in the area of land and waters of the lake.
The impact of terancamnya preservation of grouse Kembang fishermen will be felt immediately, because the animals this motor functions as the productivity of the lake with the Mahakam spread grass seeds and provide nutrition to contribute to (feces) of the fish.
He will need to assess the rules of the population quota of Kembang grouse can be hunted in order not to disrupt the balance of ecosystem.
Researchers from the University of Amsterdam in 2004, that is, Gabriella Fredriksson with friends to have found evidence that there are activities and arrest grouse Kembang trade in a very large number of the three large lakes in the hinterland Mahakam.
The population at that time, many predicted, the reach of tens to hundreds of thousands of chickens, this is seen from the amount of the catch from the catcher Kembang grouse.
BKSDA data indicate that in 2004, there were three vendors grouse that employs more than 50 permanently catcher who came from Jakarta to the number of prisoner reach between 120,000 to 165,000 chickens per year.
While the number of grouse Kembang be arrested and that during the 17 months in 2005-2006 ranged 27,379 head. In the dry season (June-October) between 2005 and 2006 a decline of the catch, only 42.16 percent or tails of 6018.
Distribution of trade grouse is four groups catcher traders covering Samarinda, Bontang, Sangata, and Loa Kulu (East Kalimantan), while the distribution to the South Kalimantan region is to Banjarmasin, which is the largest recipient of 95 percent.
http://www.kompas.com/read/xml/2009/01/18/0444535/perburuan.burung.belibis.ancam.ekosistem.mahakam