Where Have all the Timor Deer Gone?
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
The population of Timor deer in the Wasur National Park is fast decreasing. Stricter regulations are needed to save the rare species.
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WITH a machete in his hand and a bow and arrows hanging from his back, the middle-aged man cut his way through the bushes into the forests of the Wasur National Park in the Papua district of Merauke. Hes Yusuf Balagaize, a hunter from Kampung Yereuw in the subdistrict of Rawabiru. Leaving in the morning or at night is happy hunting if you return with a deer and a kangaroo or two in your bag, he says.
Almost each day Yusuf, a noken (the traditiona
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