Frankfurt Zoological Society – Indonesia Programme
Open Vacancy for Wildlife
Protection Unit Manager (Jambi Province)
Wildlife Protection Unit (WPU) is a community based patrol unit operating since 2004 in Bukit Tigapuluh Landscape Jambi Province, Sumatera. Bukit Tigapuluh landscape is one of the three Sumatran tiger conservation areas of global importance, it is home of an extremely successful Sumatran orangutan reintroduction project and the habitat of a significant elephant population. WPU is an integrated part of the Bukit Tigapuluh Landscape Conservation Program (BLCP) executed by Frankfurt Zoological Society (FZS). WPU collaborate closely with forest police to support law enforcement in Bukit Tigapuluh landscape. As forest in the buffer zone of Bukit Tigapuluh National Park is under tremendous pressure by large scale forest encroachment the aim of WPU is monitoring of wildlife, mitigation of human-wildlife conflicts, gathering of information about wildlife crimes including forest encroachment and illegal logging and support of scientific surveys. WPU field teams act as an information hub for local communities to disseminate wildlife law and forest regulations and to act as a mobile contact point for locals for everything related to wildlife conservation. WPU teams support researchers during scientific surveys and are involved in field data collection including camera trapping.
