DENPASAR – Bali definitely need more Forest Area. Bali governor, I Made Mangku Pastika, said that ideally forest area for Bali is should be 30% from the total area of Bali which is about 560 thousand hectares.
"Currently there is only 22 percent forest area and it is also not all are purely forest” he said after "Deklarasi Kesatuan Pengelolaan Hutan" (KPH) or Declaration for Forest Management Union.
Bali has 133,636 hectares of forest. 3,000 of them are sea forest. The rest is land forest and 96% of them are in sub area of regencies and cities. He also explain that the problem to increase the forest area is from land status. “We want to do reforestation to some bald and landslide prone area but we have problem with land ownership” he complain. And some time there is permit issue to do reforestation as well, because it must be apply to Jakarta and it is not that easy as well.
Governor also say that Bali government at some point have been thinking about buy the land and do reforestation without those complication above. But again there are some budget problem and also social effect that could be happen by doing that problem.
So now what should Balinese do about this? I think we should start grow some tree in front of our house. Not just a big concrete and other fancy decoration. One tree every 5 years I think should be a good start.
Taken from: http://bataviase.co.id/node/15863
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
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