Tag: conservation (storage)
Bridging the gap between farmers production orientation and the watershed conservation goal in Indonesia’s regreening program
Regreening is the main objective of Indonesia’s watershed conservation program conducted on critical farmers’ land through farmers’ participation. Initiated in 1976 by a Presidential Instruction the program has the following objectives:•Watershed resource conservation•Farmers’ prosperity improvement (productivity increase).Regreening, executed by the district-level Forestry and Conservation Service, encompasses: •village-level demonstration,•nursery of tree crops and grasses,•community forest, •mixed garden,•check dam,•gully plug.The main effort is spent on the demonstration units and village nurseries
Birds in Sumberjaya
• Birds observation havebeen done in Sumberjayaduring 2000-2002 byTrudy O’Connor.• The data is in processingto analyze.
Arresting forest decline at Tanzania’s Uluguru mountains
Home to the Luguru people, the Uluguru Mountains are a chain of cool, wet, highland forests that have attracted human settlement for hundreds of years.The mountains are the source of the Ruvu River, which sustains 2.8 million people in Tanzania’s capital city Dar es Salaam. Arab traders established the port centuries ago largely because of the presence of fresh water from the Ruvu. However, population pressures have resulted in expansion of farming, increased logging and the decline of forest cover which have negatively affected the quantity and quality of River Ruvu’s water.