Agathis forest can provide support for all the life that is within or nearby. These forests provide space for flora and fauna. Dense forest with canopy cover and not abort cycle in the dry season can provide a space for living organisms, especially animals. In addition agathis forest plays a role in soil and water conservation. For the people who live around the forest agathis, benefits that can be obtained is to be tappers, the sap of the results they can finance their life, other than that they can obtain grass for animal feed and foodstuffs of agroforestry systems.
Watupanjang, Krucil, Probolinggo, East Java, Indonesia
Samsul Maarif
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