“We estimate that the population in the Sanggabuana area is in the range of 10 to 15 individuals. This includes two new individuals who learned to hunt by preying on local sheep in 2022,” he said.
Apart from recording the Javan leopard, the camera traps installed on Mount Sanggabuana also recorded other animal species such as deer, mackerel, partridges, civets, and pancawarna pheasants.
Bernard said that almost all of the animals recorded by the camera traps are protected species according to the Minister of Environment and Forestry Regulation No. 106/2018 on protected plant and animal species.
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SCF’s camera traps also captured two poachers carrying rifles in the Sanggabuana forest area.