Boars, monkeys attack plantations

Boars, monkeys attack plantations

CIAMIS, West Java: Dozens of boars and monkeys from Mount Sawal are raiding plantations in Cipaku in the West Java regency of Tasikmalaya after a 12-kilometer-long wall collapsed last Thursday.

The old wall, which is 50 centimeters wide and two meters tall, was erected in 1980 to protect villagers from animals.

Sukawening village head Rubai said on Friday that people were anxious as every night animals destroyed their crops and monkeys entered their homes.

"It will take Rp 100 million to restore the wall but people have lost dozens of millions of rupiah," he said, adding that villagers killed three animals a night and had limited weapons. --Antara