Major step towards Asian Rhino recovery
October 2013. At a meeting of the five Asian Rhino range states - Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Nepal - a common action plan was agreed with the aim of increasing the populations of Asian Rhino species by at least 3% annually by 2020.
This agreement, called the Bandar Lampung Declaration, was reached after two days of negotiations at the Asian Rhino Range States Meeting held in Bandar Lampung, Indonesia, hosted by the government of Indonesia and facilitated by the IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC).
"Our decision to host this meeting reflects Indonesia's determination to do everything we can to save our species of rhino," says Zulkifli Hasan, Minister of Forestry, Indonesia. "We have found that when a species becomes extremely rare, occurring at a very low density, such as the Sumatran Rhino, we need to take special measures to ensure that the animals can find each other and breed."
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