The Bali Regional Police Water and Air Security Directorate successfully thwarted an attempted trafficking operation involving 21 protected green turtles in the coastal area of Buleleng Regency.
Vice Minister of Forestry, Rohmat Marzuki, emphasized that wildlife crime must be viewed as a serious crime, and its handling must not stop at arresting perpetrators in the field, but rather must dismantle the entire network involved, from upstream to downstream.
The death of a Sumatran elephant, found decomposing with its head severed and its tusks missing, in Lubuk Kembang Bunga Village, Ukui District, Pelalawan Regency, on February 2, 2026, marked the beginning of the unraveling of an organized, inter-provincial wildlife poaching network.
