Elephan Respon Unit at Way Kambas National Park - Indonesia

Elephant Respond Unit (ERU) is a sub organization under Indonesian Ministry of Environment funded by Non Government Organization : Asian Elephant Support, International Elephant Foundation, Wildlife Without Borders, and WTG (Welttierschutz geselichaft e.V) without any support from Indonesian Government founded in 2010 and located at Way Kambas National Park-Lampung-Indonesia. Mr. NAZARUDDIN the coordinator of ERU lead hundreds of Employee and voulenteers at the national park in helping to secure the national park especially wild Elephant from coflict by prevent the residents area arround the park using controlled elephant that own by ERU, ERU also have medical team that control the healthy of the domesticated elephants by giving health examination and medical treatment. Since ERU was founded, the conflict between Elephant and local resident reduced significanlty, the healthy of domesticated elephants increasing, and the illegal proaching and logging at the national park reduced. Although there are no support at all from Indonesian government, with the help of above NGO, the organization still running since the good leadership from Mr. NAZARUDDIN.