FOREST & WILDLIFE PROTECTION UNIT

The Forest and Wildlife Patrol Unit (ForWPU) is a programme to encourage the active participation of local communities in the conservation and protection efforts and assist the law enforcement process for forestry-related crimes in and around the Leuser Ecosystem. The ForWPU currently has two patrol team consisting of six trained rangers tackling not only poaching and hunting issues but also dealing with illegal logging and wildlife trafficking. Together with Gunung Leuser National Park authority, we have trained 130 community and national park rangers to take part in forest patrol using SMART patrol system and patrolled more than 316,490.45 ha of forest area with more than 400 snares have been removed so far and 35 prosecuted forest criminal cases by working together with authorities from Law enforcement department of National Conservation Agency since 2013 to 2019, we have taken forest criminal cases to authorities.