Identification of terrestrial fauna biodiversity as an effort to reduce the wildlife conflict in Batang Angkola protected forest

Abstract

The case in the key biodiversity area of Sumatera named Batang Angkola indicate clearly that the trend of deforestation effected to the biodiversity lost within past few years. The objective of this research is to identify the remind wild animal in Batang Angkola Forest, as an effort to reduce the wildlife conflict, the result were significantly showed that protected forest Batang Angkola has some of the list of animals that also apart of IUCN, as tiger, pangoline, sunda pangolin and sun bear. There are 450 animals photos including 21 types of mammals, some animals that registered in the IUCN or International Union or Conservation Nature, as a part of the animals captures by the camera traps in Batang Angkola listed as endangered, endangered and critical endangered, threated and vulnerable. The analysis provides an occurrence probability for respective species, which is a proxy for abundance, that is allowing population trends to be tracked and also a Relative Abundance Indices measure for respective capture species. The high number of endangered and critical species illustrated that the forest contribution to conserving the Sumatera key biodiversity area significantly needed. Many of the wildlife animals are highly sensitive to the forest fragmentation.