The people of Esukotan avoid Babi village on their way to Nigerian markets. Likewise are Babi villagers afraid to enter the forest let alone the village of Esukotan. Cooperation between the villages in trade and natural resource management has come to a standstill and family members are cut off from each other. Although the conflict situation at first sight seems to be a localised and isolated event, a complex history of migration, trade and identity formation should be taken into account to fully understand the issue at play.
Media Coverage
CIFOR Latih Budidaya Gaharu di Sentaban
Untuk mencegah terjadinya kepunahan komoditi hasil hutan non kayu di Malinau, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) mengadakan pelatihan budidaya gaharu pada masyarakat Desa Sentaban, Malinau Barat. Pelatihan yang diikuti sekitar 20 orang dengan mendatangkan tenaga pelatih dari Litbang Kehutanan Kaltim tersebut, sebagai salah satu upaya untuk menyelamatkan gaharu dari kepunahan. Kelangkaan gaharu dikarenakan terjadinya pemanenan besar-besaran dan tidak lestari, permintaan minyak gaharu yang semakin meningkat dan harga gaharu yang makin lama makin tinggi.
Hutan Harus Dijaga Bersama
Untuk membangun komitmen dalam melakukan pengelolaan hutan secara bersama dengan prinsip pengelolaan terpadu dan tidak mutlak dibatasi wilayah administrasi melainkan mengarah pada pengelolaan bentang alam atau berdasarkan daerah aliran sungai (DAS), maka Pemkab Malinau bekerja sama dengan IUCN dan CIFOR mengelar lokakarya pengembangan pengelolaan hutan oleh masyarakat (PPHM).
Mampukah JPT meretas krisis industri kehutanan?
Pada 2003, ekspor kehutanan secara resmi dilaporkan sejumlah US$6,6 miliar atau sekitar 13,7 % dari nilai seluruh ekspor nonmigas. Ekspor itu terdiri dari kayu lapis, kayu gergajian dan kayu olahan US$ 2,8 miliar, pulp dan kertas US$2,4 miliar dan furnitur US$1,1 miliar dan sisanya berasal dari kayu olahan lain. Tetapi, menurut perkiraan CIFOR, karena tidak tercatat seluruhnya jumlah tersebut dapat mencapai lebih dari US$8 miliar.
Opini: Hutan, Tenaga Kerja dan Common Property
Secara singkat dapat dikatakan, jika pemerintah mau menempatkan hutan-hutan yang rusak seluas 60 juta ha sebagai sebuah common property, dimana actor-aktor kecil diberikan hak-hak kelola jangka panjang, maka pengangguran dan kemiskinan dapat teratasi. Lebih dari itu, ketidakadilan pengelolaan sumberdaya alam, terutama hutan yang menimbulkan konflik, akan menurun.
‘Green Gold’ for Green Energy Resources as US DOE forecasts Wood Biomass ‘Cellulose Fiber’ to Replace Corn as Key Ethanol Source; EU’s to Invest $54 billion in ‘Cheapwood’ by 2015
Green Energy Resources cited the Center for International Forestry Research and the UK’s Department for International Development that $54 billion dollars will be invested in "cheap wood" sources by 2015.The investment reflects strong demand for a variety of renewable energy projects including ,biomass, gasification, co-firing, carbon sequestration and cellulostic fiber. The report in the June issue of "Environmental Finance Magazine" stated European financial institutions such as Dutch ING, ABN Amro and Rabobank,were investing aggressively in environmentally responsible wood supplies.
Same story also appeared in Sys-Con Media website.
Another Inconvenient Truth: Meat is a Global Warming Issue
Additionally, rainforests are being cut down at an extremely rapid rate to both pasture cows and grow soybeans to feed cows. The clear-cutting of trees in the rainforest — an incredibly bio-diverse area with 90 percent of all species on Earth — not only creates more greenhouse gases through the process of destruction, but also reduces the amazing benefits that those trees provide. Rainforests have been called the “lungs of the Earth,” because they filter our air by absorbing CO2, while emitting life-supporting oxygen. “In a nutshell,” according to the Center for International Forestry Research, “cattle ranchers are making mincemeat out of Brazil’s Amazon rainforests.”
Mini Workshop Pelestarian Hutan
South East Asia Germany (SEAG) berkolaborasi dengan Perum Perhutani mengadakan pelatihan bertema ”Integrating Approaches to Achieve Multiple Goals on Sustainable Forest Management” di Semarang, 19-20 September 2006. Acara itu dibuka Vice Head Unit I Perum Perhutani Ir Bambang Setiabudi MSc. Pembicara utama Philips Guizol dari Centre of International Forestry Research (CIFOR) dan Head of Corporate Planning and Development Perum Perhutani Sadhardjo Siswamartana.