Jakarta, Feb. 18 -- Indonesia's Ministry of Forestry is developing a conservation strategy for the Javan leopard ( Panthera pardus melas ), which will include measures such as utilizing preservation areas outside protected areas.

This was conveyed by the ministry's Director General of Conservation of Natural Resources and Ecosystems (KSDAE) Satyawan Pudyatmoko here on Tuesday.

He informed that the Javan leopard population survey carried out by the ministry in collaboration with the SINTAS Indonesia Foundation detected the presence of the protected animal in six of the seven landscapes analyzed using camera traps.

He said that the endangered Javan leopards live in several different areas. Some of these areas are seeing a decline in the ...