Dhole’s Ecology and Legal Status: Conservation and Management Implication in Human-Dominated Landscape of Java, Indonesia

DOI

10.2991/absr.k.220406.088How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Cuon alpinus; Conservation; Ecology; Java; Legal status; Management

Abstract

The success of conservation and management of endangered species is highly dependent on the manager’s understanding on the biology and ecology of the target species. However, most wildlife management and conservation activities in developing countries are not based on scientific data, but more on the political agenda and intuition of managers. As a result, the impact of conservation and management efforts was far from what was expected and sometimes even caused new problems to arise (e.g., the rapid population decline of certain species, introduction of alien invasive species etc.). Wildlife legal status is also important to protect a certain species from exploitation and to ensure the fairness by regulating social conduct and enforcing policy associated with wildlife management and conservation, and, therefore, it has play an important role in achieving management goal. We attempt to review the management and conservation of dholes (Cuon alpinus) at the human-dominated landscape through ecological and legal approach. Our finding showed that an approach which was mostly used along the history of dhole’s management was lethal control due to livestock depredation. This approach has resulted dramatic decline of dhole’s population and explosion of wild ungulates population. In Indonesia, the government regulation to conserve this species is already exists, but lack of implementation due to management limitations. The absence and lack of baseline data for dhole’s conservation are common phenomenon since this species has not listed as a priority species. To ensure the long-term survival of this species, suitable conservation strategy supported by good scientific data and regulations related to dhole’s conservation is absolutely needed. Gathering scientific data related to the dhole’s conservation by the multidisciplinary team will benefit to the management in resolving the problem arises during the management process. The availability of adequate ecological data will also be useful for increasing public understanding in the importance of dhole conservation and attracting public sympathy, thus they become more tolerant to the existence of this species.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press International B.V.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Sandy Nurvianto
AU  - Muhammad Ali Imron
AU  - Sven Herzog
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/05/02
TI  - Dhole’s Ecology and Legal Status: Conservation and Management Implication in Human-Dominated Landscape of Java, Indonesia
BT  - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Biological Science (ICBS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 609
EP  - 625
SN  - 2468-5747
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/absr.k.220406.088
DO  - 10.2991/absr.k.220406.088
ID  - Nurvianto2022
ER  -