Forestry Seminar

In 2005, The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has characterized the deforestation situation over the world. They said that each year, thirteen million hectares of forest disappear from the earth due to human activity. In Indonesia we have lost our forest rapidly because of deforestation and local farmers activity.It makes the earth lost a lot of its carbon storage. Therefore, SIKLUS cooperate with Agency of Living Environment and Forestry held forestry project  named “Seminar Siklus Menghitung Karbon”.

The seminar held in Cangar-Batu for 2 days and followed by 200 participator from different university and instance. It have indoor and outdoor concept which is consist of 4 subject. We learn about forest, TAHURA (Taman Hutan Raya), watershed, etc. But mainly we discuss about forest protection and forest management. Forest protection includes any activities that protect and conserve native forest against pressure from forest clearing, fire and illegal logging. Forest management deals with activities that are designed to change technical forestry principles to manage and maintain a forest for timber production while maintaining the forest’s productive and renewal capacities, so the two activities that are included are reduced impact logging and stop logging. Depends on what we leard during the seminar, i think this seminar is so exciting and it was my first outdoor seminar. There is one thing else, on the second day we planted 200 Casuarina junghuniana at downhill of the mountain.  But unfortunately, our transportation delayed for 4 hours before we head back to Surabaya.