![]() That task gained urgency last December, after a tsunami struck the coast near Ujung Kulon, killing two park officials but leaving the rhinos unharmed.Ĭonservationists’ top pick for a second habitat has long been a 5,000-hectare (12,360-acre) wildlife reserve in Cikepuh, on Java’s southern coast and away from the tsunami-prone northern coast. Two Javan rhinos deep in the forests of Ujung Kulon National Park, the species’ sole remaining habitat. With the entire species crammed into the 1,230-square-kilometer (475-square-mile) park, conservationists and government officials have for decades mulled the idea of establishing a second habitat to mitigate the risk of catastrophe from disease or natural disaster. JAKARTA - Indonesia has put on hold a plan to establish a second habitat for the Javan rhinoceros beyond the single site on the planet where the critically endangered species lives.Īn estimated 68 Javan rhinos ( Rhinoceros sondaicus) live in Ujung Kulon National Park, on the western tip of the island of Java. However, the top contender for a second habitat currently serves as a military training ground, leaving conservationists to find ways to expand the rhinos’ suitable habitat within the national park.Conservationists had for years considered finding a second habitat outside the park to establish a new population of rhinos, given the risks they currently face from disease and natural disasters. ![]() The species numbers an estimated 68 individuals, all of them corralled in a national park on the western tip of the island of Java.The Indonesian government says plans to establish a second habitat for the critically endangered Javan rhinoceros have been put on hold.
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