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The Provincial Office of the Natural Resources Conservation Center of the Forestry Department and the Lumajang Police Department have succeeded in confiscating 17 protected wildlife on 5^th October 2011. The rare wild animals included three Javan langurs (Trachipytechus auratus), a barking deer (Muntiacus muntjak), two slow lorises (Nycticebus coucang), ten hornbills (Buceros undulatus), and a buffy fish owl (Ketupa ketupu). The suspect admitted to smuggle the wildlife to Malang city for the illegal trade.

(11/24/2001) The rampant slaughter of orangutans (Pongo pqymaeus) on Kalimantan Island has moved Melanie Subono, a singer, to join ProFauna Indonesia activists in their street campaign protesting the orangutan and other wildlife killing.

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.