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The recent achievement was the issue of the Circular Letter of the Internal Affairs Ministry instructing all governors in Indonesia to protect sea turtles in theirs areas.

The female rockstar who just launched a new album and a book, invited the students to get involved in nature and wildlife conservation. The students includeing the teachers were excited to get involved with the efforts as expressed during when they addressed some questions to the singer after ProFauna played a conservation film.

The Provincial Office of the Natural Resources Conservation Center of the Forestry Department and the Lumajang Police Department have succeeded in confiscating 17 protected wildlife on 5^th October 2011. The rare wild animals included three Javan langurs (Trachipytechus auratus), a barking deer (Muntiacus muntjak), two slow lorises (Nycticebus coucang), ten hornbills (Buceros undulatus), and a buffy fish owl (Ketupa ketupu). The suspect admitted to smuggle the wildlife to Malang city for the illegal trade.

(11/24/2001) The rampant slaughter of orangutans (Pongo pqymaeus) on Kalimantan Island has moved Melanie Subono, a singer, to join ProFauna Indonesia activists in their street campaign protesting the orangutan and other wildlife killing.

ProFauna Indonesia's wildlife trade monitoring show that the illegal parrot trade in Maluku, Eastern Indonesia still continues. The records show that in October 2011, dozens of Moluccan parrots were trafficked from Jailolo District in West Halmahera to Ternate, the capital of North Maluku Province.

(10/28/2011) Different from Pramuka market which recently has been more discreet, in Jatinegara Market, traders display the protected animals openly. On average, there are 10 slow lorises sold for 22 to 56 USD each per month. ProFauna's records also show that sometimes the endangered baby sea turtles can be found in the market.