Endangered rabbit found in park

Endangered rabbit found in park

BENGKULU, Bengkulu: After more than five decades, Bukit
Barisan National Park has reported a sighting of the endangered
Sumatra jungle rabbit (nesolagus netscherii).

The park's chief, Susilo Legowo, told Antara the rabbit was
spotted by one of the surveillance cameras installed across the
park.

Aside from this rare species of rabbit, first recorded during
the Dutch colonial period, the cameras located a Sumatra small ox
(polyplectron chalcurum), a Sumatran elephant (elephant omaximus
sumatranus) and a Sumatran tiger (panthera tigris sumatrensis).

Susilo said the 35-hectare park is also home to dozens of rare
plants such as shorea ovalis and eurycoma longifolia, locally
known to be useful for medication.(dja)