The Forestry Ministry’s cooperation with a French logistics company and a wildlife conservation organization has delivered tangible impacts on national biosecurity since the cooperation started in 2024, an event was told.The impacts include a comprehensive port vulnerability assessment to identify and close smuggling loopholes, the engagement and training of 127 port officials and enforcement officers across multiple state institutions; and the deployment of K9 units through the Wildlife Detection Dog (WDD) program, which directly supported 39 joint operations with government agencies.
Those impacts were revealed during an event in Bandar Lampung on July 2 to showcase the achievements of a collaboration between the ministry, CMA CGM Group and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Indonesia, the French logistics company said in a press release.
WCS Indonesia and its local partner Indonesian Animals Network (JSI) initiated the WDD program to support the ministry’s Directorate of Species and Genetic Conservation in intercepting the illicit trade of plants and wildlife.
“The protection of wild plants and animals is a shared legal responsibility that requires collaborative, integrated, and risk-based monitoring,” the ministry’s Director of Species and Genetic Conservation Ahmad Munawir said, as quoted by the press release.
