LINGKUNGAN: BOGOR (Media): Dunia kehilangan 12 juta hektare hutan tropis tiap tahun, dan wilayah hutan yang rusak itu setara dengan luas negara Yunani. Untuk itu diperlukan usaha merehabilitasi hutan di seluruh dunia yang terdegradasi beberapa dekade terakhir ini. Demikian dikatakan Dr Takeshi Toma, peneliti lingkungan dan pemanfaatan hutan CIFOR (penelitian hutan antarbangsa) di sela-sela seminar internasional bertajuk Review of forest rehabilitation initiative: Lesson from the past, Pusat CIFOR, di Desa Situgede, Sindangbarang, Kecamatan Bogor Barat, kemarin.

Environmental activists, after mapping the trade route taken by Indonesian timber, are trying to curb illegal logging by taking aim at Malaysia

POSING AS A TIMBER BUYER for European furniture makers, Sam Lawson, a researcher for the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency, approached several Malaysian traders last year hoping to gain insight into the smuggling of hardwood from Indonesia’s fast-depleting forests.

Penyelundupan kayu dari Kalimantan Barat ke Sarawak bukan peristiwa baru, tetapi sudah terjadi sejak dulu. Perbedaannya, penyelundupan kayu pada sekarang ini meningkat volumenya. Jika dulu, penyelundupan kayu dilakukan secara rahasia, tetapi sekarang dilakukan secara terang-terangan, dan sering dijadikan berita dalam media massa. Penyelundupan kayu ke luar negeri sebenarnya bukan persoalan negara jiran tetapi persoalan di dalam negeri. Kayu-kayu yang dijual ke Malaysia berupa kayu gergajian dan dilengkapi dengan SKSHH (Surat Keterangan Syahnya Hasil Hutan).

CIFOR evaluates its programme to domesticate non-timber products such as gnetum. The regional office of the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), is training villagers in the humid forest zones on methods of domesticating and marketing of non timber forest products. The programme was conceived against the backdrop of their irrational exploitation and subsequent scarcity. The forest containes a myriad of species of plants of economic importance to the inhabitants. CIFOR is working in partnership with national non-governmental organisations to domesticate some of the forest products. In Evodoula, precisely at Minwoho village, the main crop is gnetum, commonly known as eru or okok. Here, farmers have formed groups, mostly women to grow gnetum . It is carried out on a secondary farm land and does not entail destroying the forest. The plant is transplanted. Where more than one seedling is found they are separated and plant on the farm area.

MALINAU-Ribuan hektare wilayah Kabupaten Malinau adalah hutan. Dari hutan tersebut, banyak ditumbuhi berbagai anggrek, baik yang langka maupun jenis yang belum dikenal. Makanya untuk mengetahui dan menggali potensi jenis-jenis anggrek tersebut, yang tumbuh di daerah Malinau, Malinau Research Forest Centre for International Forestry Research (MRF-CIFOR) bekerjasama dengan Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia (LIPI) UPT Balai konservasi tumbuhan kebun raya Bali melakukan penelitian dan ekplorasi terhadap tanaman anggrek yang tumbuh di Malinau

David Kaimowitz, the director of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), is clearly a warm and loving person. This was immediately apparent from the way he treated The Jakarta Post during a recent interview. There’s no doubt about it, he really knows how to make one feel welcome.

CIFOR: Untuk Inventarisir Jenis dan Potensi Hutan

MALINAU-Untuk mengetahui lebih lanjut potensi hutan Desa Setulang dan menginventarisir tiap jenis tanaman yang tumbuh dan bisa dikembangkan oleh masyarakat sekitar, Malinau Research Forest (MRF) Centre for international forestry research (CIFOR) bersama Wanariset Semboja mengadakan penelitian di Hutan Desa Setulang yang dikenal dengan sebutan tane olen.

Stakeholders met in Yaounde to get legislators interested in the conservation of the environment. The 1994 law laying down Forestry, Wildlife and fisheries regulation triggered the process of decentralization in natural resource management marked by transfer of powers and rights over natural resources and their ensuing benefits to peripheral actors, primarily the local communities. Sound environmental governance within the context of the newly defined model in environmental management seeks to enfranchise the voiceless majority by ensuring a shift in power and responsibility from central authorities towards the rural communities.