In less than 24 hours, on April 24-25, Lampung Highway Patrol, Lampung BKSDA with the help of FLIGHT succeeded in thwarting 2 attempts to smuggle thousands of birds of various species transported using inter-city buses and private cars bound for Java Island.

On April 17, the judge at East Jakarta District Court sentenced Rifal Achmad to 2 years in prison and a fine of IDR 50,000,000 for illegally trading 8 eagles of various types, 1 Javan Lutung and 1 Javan Surili.

On April 19, FLIGHT supported a joint patrol to rescue 4 King Birds-of-paradise, 1 Moluccan Electus, 1 Red Lory and 3 Wallabies from smuggling attempts at Murhum Port, Southeast Sulawesi.

These animals were transported on a passenger ship departing from Papua to Jakarta.

Brown throated sunbird

Happy Eid Mubarak

We urge the public not to send Eid parcels in the form of caged birds. Birds live in the wild, not in cages.

On March 16, we assisted the Wan Abdul Rachman Grand Forest Park (Tahura) Management Unit to conduct patrols in the forest area. This patrol was conducted to ensure that the birds were safe from poachers' traps.

Several species of birds that we released were spotted.

Information collected by FLIGHT on the illegal wildlife trade in Kalimantan, Sulawesi and Maluku in the last two weeks led to the rescue of 6 Proboscis Monkeys, 40 yellow-streaked lories, 2 Sulawesi Hornbills, 3 Leopard cats, and a Grey Langur in three different locations.

Information collected by FLIGHT into trade in wild birds from Maluku ends up with rescue of 40 The yellow-streaked lories by authorities at Muruhum Seaport, Sulawesi, on March 9.

On 28 February, judges at the Bau bau District Court sentenced a trafficker to 8 months imprisonment and a fine of IDR 25,000,000.00 (approximately USD 1,595) for smuggling and trafficking 31 Yellow-crested Cockatoos and 1 Moluccan eclectus.

Throughout February 2024, we recorded that approximately 24 times the smuggling of wild birds carried out by traffickers were successfully thwarted by law officers. More than 6,900 birds have been rescued from the hands of perpetrators.

The Sulawesi Region Operations Team of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry Law Enforcement Center (Gakkum) has arrested two protected wildlife traffickers in South Sulawesi Province. 56 Protected Birds Confiscated, 46 of them Found Dead.

Throughout 2023, we recorded 21 live individual hornbills - various species - and 5 helmeted hornbill casques confiscated from the illegal wildlife trade in various regions in Indonesia. Hornbill populations continue to be threatened by the rise of illegal wildlife trade