Les Rangers du parc national Gunung Leuser sont à cheval sur les éléphants de Sumatran à Tangkahan, un parc national bordant un village situé à Langkat, au nord de Sumatra, en Indonésie.
3900 x 2612 px | 33 x 22,1 cm | 13 x 8,7 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
25 octobre 2012
Lieu:
Tangkahan, Langkat, North Sumatra, Indonesia
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Located in Langkat, North Sumatra province of Indonesia, Tangkahan ecotourism village is one of the country's pioneers in transforming destructive use on forest into a more-sustainable economic activity. The forest close to the village, mostly within the area of Gunung Leuser National Park, had suffered from illegal logging, poaching, and wildfires in 1980's and 1990's; until the local community realized that there is a more sustainable way in utilizing the forest. They have been running ecotourism packages since 2000's, which are integrated with the existence of an elephant camp managed by Conservation Response Unit (CRU)--Gunung Leuser National Park. CRU is the place where national park rangers and Sumatran elephants prepare for their routines together: forest patrol and ecotourism. "The CRU concept was established due to the situation that more than 500 captive elephants were living in government elephant camps in Sumatra with very limited use and facing a serious problem of limited resources, " stated the camp's official on CRU Tangkahan's website. "To remove the elephant activity from our program would weaken CRU and is not an alternative for the time being."
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