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Friday, March 11, 2011

HUNDREDS OF PLANTATION SOCIETY HECTARE BY ELEPHANTS

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Bengkalis - Since the end of 2009 until now, the herd of wild elephants have destroyed at least 200 hectares of oil palm and food crops in the village of Farmers, District Saber, Bengkalis District, Riau.

Village Chief Farmer, Rianto, in Bengkalis, on Friday, said that the herd of Sumatran elephants (Elephas maximus sumatranus) is destroying plantations by eating fairy palm branches, while the crops damaged by elephant herd whose numbers traversed over 20 fish.

According Rianto, damage to plantations owned by these people will continue to grow every day because of the elephant herd is always moving, from one to the other plantation estates.

In fact, he said, to avoid the savagery of the elephant herd, some village residents Farmers chose to flee to safer areas.

Mention of harvest associated with the elephant herd, he said, "Residents wary of the arrival of a protected animal that by forming a group whose numbers harvested 20 people."

He hopes that with the formation of groups to harvest it can prevent things that are not desirable. The reason is, those who became victims due to harvest his garden on an individual basis.

"Usually an elephant afraid of seeing people bustling. So, we formed a team to be able to harvest harvester keroyokan garden, "said Rianto.

Bayu (40), a resident of the village of Farmers, hoping that local governments act swiftly whenever there is an elephant conflicts in the region. The problem area is the path that routinely flock bongsor.

"If necessary the elephants were exiled from the village to avoid conflict, and the district government opened a vast land conservation as a star," he suggested.

After that, he added, was given a land conservation fencing to narrow the space for a herd of elephants.

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