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ProFauna Indonesia's wildlife trade monitoring show that the illegal parrot trade in Maluku, Eastern Indonesia still continues. The records show that in October 2011, dozens of Moluccan parrots were trafficked from Jailolo District in West Halmahera to Ternate, the capital of North Maluku Province.

(10/28/2011) Different from Pramuka market which recently has been more discreet, in Jatinegara Market, traders display the protected animals openly. On average, there are 10 slow lorises sold for 22 to 56 USD each per month. ProFauna's records also show that sometimes the endangered baby sea turtles can be found in the market.

ProFauna Indonesia works tirelessly to educate the public about wildlife and forest conservation and also animal welfare. Located in a country with the largest Moslem followers in the world, ProFauna thinks that it is important to spread the conservation and animal welfare messages through Islamic approaches: educating scholars and clerics in Islamic boarding schools in East Java and lobbying through the Indonesian Ulema Council (locally known as Majelis Ulama Indonesia/MUI) in Bali.

Twenty-five activists of ProFauna Indonesia held campaign of forest and wildlife conservation on the foothills of Semeru Volcano on 2^nd October 2011. The campaign which was located on the rural area of Wonokerto - a village adjacent to the Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park, was intended to raise awareness of the local people to get actively involved in forest conservation because most of the locals still depended their livelihood on the forest. The community outreach also tried to prevent wildlife poaching there.

In running its main activities including investigation, law enforcement, public campaign, and education; ProFauna Indonesia has been helped by its volunteers, which are called ProFauna Supporters, from all over Indonesia and overseas. Starting from becoming informants in wildlife trade, carrying banners and posters during the street campaigns, to helping the campaigners in school visits and education activities, ProFauna Supporters voluntarily help ProFauna to protect forest and wildlife in Indonesia.

(08/09/2011) The death of eight (8) Sumatran elephants in the Seblat Elephant Conservation Centre (locally abbreviated and known as PKG) in Bengkulu - Sumatera shows the lack of protection efforts. The loss of the endangered species had occurred in a short time, between January and July 2011. ProFauna suspects that the elephants had been poisoned and poached instead of natural death and urges the authorities to fully enforce the law on the cases.