KONSERVASI ANOA DAN BABIRUSA-SULAWESI

Dr.Ir Abdul Haris Mustari, M.Sc.F Departemen Konservasi Sumberdaya Hutan, Fakultas Kehutanan IPB Kampus IPB Dramaga, Bogor (haris.anoa@yahoo.com) Anoa, Satwa endemik Sulawesi populasinya makin terancam. Satwa ini tercatat dalam Apendix I CITES dan termasuk “Endangered Species” IUCN Red Data Book. SM Tanjung Amolengo terletak di ujung selatan daratan utama Sulawesi Tenggara, populasi anoanya kian menyusut mendekati kepunahan. Hasil penelitian penulis dalam kurung delapan tahun terakhir sejak tahun 1994 bahwa anoa akan mengalami kepunahan lokal di Tanjung Amolengo, padahal kawasan konservasi ini dikenal sebagai salah satu habitat utama satwa langka ini di SulawesiTenggara, bahkan Anoa Dataran Rendah ( Bubalus depressicornis ) menjadi maskot fauna propinsi ini. Tahun 1994 s/d 1995, penulis melakukan riset selama 8 bulan secara berkelanjutan mengenai populasi dan perilaku anoa di Tj Amolengo dan waktu itu hanya mencatat 8-12 ekor anoa di hutan ini dengan menggunakan berbagai met...

Abdul Haris Mustari (1), Peter Jarman (2) Department of Forest Resources Conservation and Ecotourism, Faculty of Forestry, Bogor Agricultural University, Bogor, Indonesia (haris.anoa@yahoo.com) Division of Ecosystem Management, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia SUMMARY Population density of lowland anoas was estimated using direct and indirect observations. Of the direct observations, 20 and 10 sightings of anoas were made during the 372 and 124.3 km of transects walked in Tanjung Peropa and Tanjung Amolengo reserves, respectively. Sightings were made in all forest types. For indirect observations, densities of the dung of the animals and their calculated defecation rates were used to determine habitat occupancy in each of the habitat types occupied by lowland anoas, which were shown to include riverine, bamboo, lowland and rocky-lowland forest, and forests at higher altitude up to 900 m asl in Tanjung Peropa and mangrove, beach and lowland forests in Tan...