Sad or angry? BOTH!

[Bad_azz]

Hubby informed me that there was a black panther killed in Soreang area (reported this week) two weeks ago.
I asked him for the back story & he said the locals had reported it to the police & the police told them to kill it- so they did.
Will humans never learn to respect the wildlife of this planet?
News link:
https://news.detik.com/berita-jawa-...i-ditembak-warga-di-soreang-karena-meresahkan

 

[Vanhelsing]

Similarly a couple of months ago in Bukit Lawang, Sumatra, we were told a tiger had been killed by locals in a village twenty kilomtres away. The images I saw of the animal showed it to be a beautiful healthy specimen seemingly drawn out of Gunung Leseur National Park by local livestock. It was incredibly sad to see such a magnificent animal killed in such a way, but I guess the fear is of course the animal taking a child or person. Locals allow their livestock into the park to graze which would probably entice a predator to follow or hunt them beyond the park's boundary on their return to the villages.

The treatment of animals in Indonesia is one aspect of the country I struggle with the most, whether it be local dogs or Sumatran tigers.

 

[Pak Asam Manis]

If the majority of people in Indonesia (including many expats, apparently) don't give a flying shit about helpless stray dogs being rounded up, mouths muzzled, thrown into sacks and onto trucks with their unlucky brothers and sisters and taken to a market to be clubbed on the head, why would they care about panthers or tigers?

Many humans apparently will not learn to respect many different forms of life, including animal (both wild and domesticated species) and fellow human, if the history of things up to now is any fair indic, ation. Some of us are trying, however, but we can't stop everyone else from doing their own thing, whatever that is. Or we shouldn't anyway, because we'll just get laughed at, called naïve do-gooders and worse, and those people will just go on doing their own thing, so sorry, panthers and tigers, orang hutan, et cetera ... you're running out of time and luck.

 

[joegoes]

I'd say both sad and angry. It's unfortunate and definitely something I struggle to deal with as well.

 

[waarmstrong]

I guess I am guilty of caring less about stray dogs than animals on the endangered list.

 

[Gratilla]

We're lucky enough to attract various attractive wild birds, butterflies, lizards etc to our plot.

On a number of occasions itinerants armed with air rifles wander in to try some target practice on something small and warm and breathing .

I had to tell them to err ... "Go away." Haven't seen any of them recently.

 

[jstar]

They climb the trees next door and empty the birds nests. It’s a shame but it would not be very smart to complain about it.

The cats disappear from time to time when the Satpam pick them all up and drop them in another place. Other neighborhoods probably do the same since we sometimes get a load of new cats on the streets.

 

[Pak Tani]

I asked him for the back story & he said the locals had reported it to the police & the police told them to kill it- so they did.

It's a shame that wildlife protection has not enough priority for Indonesia to set up a team of experts to solve problems with dangerous animals like in the OP.
On the other hand I'm a bit surprised that the locals killed it. Often Indonesians are quite creative when it comes to making money. Why not catch it and sell it? And that sumatran Tiger in Vanhelsings post? Must be worth more than sekedar uang rokok.

 

[Bad_azz]

I can't really respond much because the whole thing just has me at a loss for words. **In SMH mode**