Jakarta, Aug. 29 -- The Ministry of Forestry has officially started the Red and White Operation to translocate two Javan rhinoceroses to a new conservation area as part of efforts to save the Javan rhino population.

In the plan, the rhinos are being translocated from the Ujung Kulon Peninsula, Pandeglang, Banten, to the Javan Rhino Study and Conservation Area (JRSCA), Pandeglang, located 14 kilometers away.

"This is our shared moral, social, and political responsibility to ensure our future generations will still have Javan rhinoceroses 50, 100, 200 years from now, and even forever," Forestry Minister Raja Juli Antoni said during the operation's kick-off event here on Friday.

He noted that the effort is part of the "ecological repentan...