Jakarta, Aug. 29 -- The government is striving to increase populations of critically endangered animals in the country, one of which by translocating two Javan rhinos (Rhinoceros sondaicus) to a new conservation area.

During the launch of the Javan Rhino Translocation operation in Jakarta, on Friday, Director General of the Ministry of Forestry's Natural Resources and Ecosystem Conservation, Satyawan Pudyatmoko, said the ministry aims to increase the population of protected, critically endangered animals in line with the National Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN).

Conservation of natural resources and ecosystems, he said, is targeted to improve a species' status from critically endangered to endangered and then to vulnerable.

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