Sumatran elephant populations that are in production forest elephant training center specialized functions (PLG) Seblat Bengkulu province of residence 64 tails.
"The population of wild elephants which are in production forest area in 2008, lived 64 Seblat tail and every year the population continues to decline," said Director General of Forest Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Department of Forestry Harry Santoso, Monday (23/11).
Until now the population of wild elephants in forest production PLG special function continues to decline due to the conflict between wild elephants and humans.
These conditions must be anticipated quickly because it will affect the population and the decline of plantation land has always been the reason for this.
Sumatra's wild elephant population in Kerinci Seblat National Park (TNKS), which is located in North Bengkulu District, Bengkulu Province is divided into four groups.
In 2001 four groups of wild elephants in the region TNKS, the Air-Water Seblat Rami, 50, and red Seblat, Air-Air Cracks Tembulun, 19 tails. Regions Air-Air Cracks Honey, and Water Fish, 53 tails, and Air-Water Teramang Berau, 41 tails.
PLG Seblat residing in the village of Seblat, Putri Hijau subdistrict, North Bengkulu district is approximately 100 kilometers north of the city of Bengkulu is a production forest habitat function for wild Sumatran elephants.
Wild and human-elephant conflict continues in the area, because some areas have been converted into plantations by the forest production.
Some plantation companies operating in the region, is also partly included in the production of forest conflicts that continue to occur.
The area of the PLG Seblat when most of its use have been converted to oil palm plantations and other crops cultivated by squatters.
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