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| Potensi keberadaan mangsa macan tutul (_Panthera pardus melas_ Cuvier, 1809) di koridor antara gunung halimun dan gunung salak | |
| 2006 Full Book | |
Based on the Ministerial Decree 175/Kpts-II/2003 the Mount Halimun National Park area was expanded to include Mount Salak and a forest corridor inbetween. Given the important function for the ecosystem, the corridor should protected. To support the complete protection, data is required and the right strategy needs to be chosen. The corridor can serve as a place to find food for the top predators, i.e. the reare and endangered Javan leopard (_Panthera pardus melas_ Cuvier 1809). The of this research was to study the type and abundance of leopard prey in the corridor. The results may benefit the conservation of leopards and underline the importance of habitat corridors. Primary and secondary data were collected. Primary data include the abundance of Javan gibbon, surili, langur, wild boar and muntjac. Secondary data includes general conditions such as the location of the study sites, and flora and fauna at the sites. The corridor consists of a series of hill that connect Mount Halimun with Mount Salak. It has an average slope of 30% with rapid water runoff and is prone to erosion. There are 13 streams in the corridor area. The widest road (3 m) cuts through the middle of the corridor. Four other roads with an average width of 1.5 m are limiting the habitat at either end of the corridor. The roads cut the corridor into two habitat islands. Direct and indirect observations in the field indicate eight species of prey: Javan surili (_Presbytis aygula aygula_), silver leaf monkey (_Trachypithecus cristatus sondaicus_), Javan gibbon (_Hylobates moloch moloch_), muntjac (_Muntiacus muntjak_), wild boar (_Sus scrofa_), Sunda pangolin (_Manis javanica_), and Sunda porcupine (_Hystrix javanica_). The existence of leopard in the corridor is known from pugmarks, scrapes, scats and markings. The traces that were found indicated that only two leopards use the corridor as a place to hunt prey. This was confirmed by the results of the Indonesian Biodiversity Conservation study from September 2004 to March 2005, which also only found 2 leopards on their eleven camera traps. |
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