Improving the economic welfare of communities living in forested areas would do little to reduce the widespread illegal logging across the country, environmentalists say. Director of the Indonesian Center for Environmental Law (ICEL) Indro Sugianto said the most effective way to combat illegal logging was to develop an integrated law enforcement system to use against the logging "mafia", which was known to be backed by elements in government and the security forces.

Les forêts contribuent directement à réduire la pauvreté extrême et la faim et à assurer un environnement durable, deux des Objectifs du millénaire pour le développement (OMD), a affirmé mardi l’Organisation mondiale pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture (FAO) basée à Rome. Un groupe d’experts réunis par l’organisation a estimé qu’une bonne gestion de la forêt contribuait au développement durable.

Les forêts contribuent directement à réduire la pauvreté extrême et la faim et à assurer un environnement durable, deux des Objectifs du Millénaire pour le Développement (OMD), selon un groupe d’experts forestiers invités par la FAO.

Le groupe a mis en lumière la contribution considérable de la forêt et des arbres hors forêt à la réalisation des OMD, soulignant que la gestion durable de la forêt et le développement durable sont étroitement liés, comme cela a été reconnu lors du Sommet mondial sur le développement durable en 2002.

WASHINGTON and ROME, Jan. 25 /PRNewswire/ – Forests contribute directly to reducing extreme poverty and hunger and ensuring environmental sustainability, two of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a panel of forestry experts invited to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has concluded.

Mengurangi Kerusakan Lingkungan Akibat Pembalakan

MALINAU-Untuk mengurangi kerusakan lingkungan akibat pembalakan hutan, diharapkan tiap perusahaan menerapkan reduceg impact logging (RIL) atau yang lebih dikenal dengan istilah pembalakan berdampak rendah dan ramah lingkungan.

Mengurangi Kerusakan Lingkungan Akibat Pembalakan

MALINAU-Untuk mengurangi kerusakan lingkungan akibat pembalakan hutan, diharapkan tiap perusahaan menerapkan reduce impact logging (RIL) atau yang lebih dikenal dengan istilah pembalakan berdampak rendah dan ramah lingkungan. Agar terealisasi dengan baik diperlukan adanya ketentuan yang mengaturnya yang dikeluarkan oleh pemerintah dalam bentuk peraturan daerah (perda). Demikian dikatakan Ir Hari Priyadi MSc, koordinator pelatihan RIL kepada KPNN kemarin.

The call was made by the research assistant of CIFOR during a one day sensitisation seminar. The Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), on wednesday held a training session to sensitise and inform the local population in the forest area of Ngoumou on how to judiciously harness and market non timber forest products(NTFP), to ensure sustainability. Named by the colonial administration in 1930 as the Ottotomo Forest Reserve, it comprises fourteen villages on both the Northern and Southern parts of the reserve. The increasing rate of demographic growth with the pressure exerted on the reserve for a livelihood is a call for concern. It is against this backdrop that CIFOR, working in collaboration with some local groups in the area, is seeking alternative means to diversify activities to reduce pressure on the forest. Until the year 2003, the forest was fully controlled by the government through ONADEF today known as ANAFOR, and some supporting organs like CIFOR’s Adaptive Co-management programme and ATD(Association de terre et de développement), all of which withdrew due to the economic crisis. The absence of these organs let to free access by the local population into the reserve in search of their livelihood.

Sistem Penebangan Hutan Ramah Lingkungan

MALINAU-Untuk mewujudkan pengelolaan hutan secara lestari di Malinau dan meningkatkan kesiapan Sumber Daya Manusia (SDM), kedasaran dan pengetahuan masyarakat serta pengusaha bidang kehutanan dan penentu kebijakan dalam hal ini Pemkab, Center For International Forestry Research (CIFOR) bekerja kerja sama dengan departemen kehutanan, PT Inhutani II dan Pemkab Malinau, berencana akan menggelar pelatihan Reduced Impact Logging (RIL).