JAKARTA: A team of wildlife experts are looking to be part of a noble effort to find solutions to human-wildlife conflicts in Aceh.
The team from the Syiah Kuala University (USK) announced this over the weekend, according to the Antara news agency.
In a statement, USK revealed the special team is currently drafting regulations for the Aceh administrators to deal with such conflicts.
The experts are part of the USK Product-Based Community Service Unit and the draft they are putting together will eventually be tabled for approval in the Aceh Qanun (Aceh Law).
"Human-wildlife conflicts have repeatedly occurred in several areas around Aceh over these past ten years," Head of the USK's Product-Based Community Service Unit, Kurniawan, said.
The last three years of recurrent events have encouraged the USK's experts to join efforts to seek solutions to those human-wildlife conflicts, he said.
In the Qanun on managing wildlife, the Aceh administration could determine the human-wildlife conflicts as extraordinary events, Kurniawan said.
Thus far, USK experts had discussed this matter with those from wildlife conservation societies, and observed the cases of human-wildlife conflicts in Jantho and Nagan Raya Districts.
Among others, the new laws could later be used as a legal basis for providing residents affected from the direct impacts of the human-wildlife conflicts with compensation, he said.
Over the past few years, the human-elephant conflicts have become a major conservation concern in Aceh.