Kamis, 14 Februari 2013

SAVE HALMAHERA PRIMARY FOREST


SAVE HALMAHERA PRIMARY FOREST
Halmahera Island is the largest Island in North Maluku, it encompasses the mountainous rain forests. This  islands have a high number of endemic species. Around 38 mammal species, six are endemic to the ecoregion, including the Bisa rat, masked flying fox, and three species of cuscus--the Moluccan cuscus, Obi cuscus, and Gebe cuscus. Like kangaroos, cuscuses are marsupials, and females have pouches to carry their young. Cuscuses are hard to see in the wild because they live high in trees and move slowly about at night. Many more bird species than mammals can be found here--215 in all--with 26 species that are endemic. Four endemics are considered vulnerable: the invisible rail, caranculated fruit-dove, chattering lorry, Goliath Coucall, Wake tale and white cockatoo.
As spices Island people here cultivate Cloves, nutmeg. However, nearly 80 percent of this ecoregion’s native forests still exist. Extensive blocks of habitat still cover all the islands in the chain. This is our main concern to protect the primary forest from deforestation.
 Forest exploitation in North Maluku has been happening by logging company since 1980’s  in Obi Island, Bacan Island, Sula Island, East Halmahera, Morotai, Centrlal Halmahera and North Halmahera and West Halmahera. However, The rest of original primary forest still exist  in West Halmahera, which is under control of Tobaru tribe of Ibu sub-district since their ancestor. It’s not easy to struggle as logging company can get government permit easily to enlarge their logging activity to the interior.
The impact of logging company is not only to rise up global warming but more than that is to open an access for the city community to move to a new place and doing forest clearance for agriculture purpose.  This might be good for those want to enlarge their property but it will force the tribe to work hard struggling to change their life from hunting every day and collect food from their own small permaculture garden to the way of life that fully depend on money.    

ALEX DJANGU OF TOBARU TRIBE 

Alex Djangu is a native Tobaru from Duono Village Ibu sub-district West Halmahera Regency, he worked with Save the Children UK in 2003 to 2005 and then teach at an International school and Community College in Tobelo North Halmahera but finally he found difficult to share his time on doing teaching job as well as going to the forest with his tribe friends and uncles to look after the forest and he decided to resign from his teaching and fully concern on protecting his ancestor forest. He realize that most of his brothers and folks after finish their bachelor they prefer living in the city and doing office job as well as being politician and have lack of nature concerning.
Now he work with his friends and uncle to promote the West Halmahera Primary forest to the government and global community to support in protecting the only native forest left in Halmahera Island in term of policies to change the status of the forest in to conservation area as well tourism destination to keep the sustainability in future.

WHAT ARE INSIDE THE INTERIOR?
1.    Todoke Lake
2.    Tokuoko Lake
3.    Peke Lake
4.    Sika Lake
5.    Kaleru Thermal
6.    Tingitio Thermal
7.    Rugu-rugu Hot River
8.    Standard Wing paradise bird, Maleo  and other endemic
9.    Ira River
10. Wai Lamoko River
11.  Mawea River
12. Tiabo River

WHAT DO WE DO FOR PREVENTING DEFORESTATION?

Not everyone in the world feel happy after damage things belong to him/her, everyone would love to take care of everything which is belonging to him/her. As a tribe that our ancestor have being live in Halmahera for a long time, we have sense of belonging on the nature, forest and everything on it that created by all mighty God for our needs. We realize that we have responsibility to use it and to take care for our sustainable life purpose, not to destroy.
In 1999, one of a big company in Indonesia tried to bring investment by building a palm oil farm for 29000 Ha, it means we have to lose our forest, how many trees will be cut down to make money? And how much flood disaster will happen for us? How much marine destruction after land erosion?
That’s make us struggle to stop them.
Our forest is your forest, it’s borderless, and we are living in the same globe. Forest destruction is a global issue.
You want to join us? Support us to convert the forest into conservation area for a sustainability tourism destination.
Let’s get contact
Alex Djangu
Phone: 0821 9 123 5467
e-mail: alex_djangu@yahoo.com



GALERI
West Halmahera Forest


























THE TAGUTIL TRIBE IN WANGONGIRA VILLAGE FOTO: IN 1999 

 AFTER A LOGGING COMPANY BUILT AN ACCESS TO WANGONGIRA VILLAGE, NOW 60 % OF PEOPLE IN THEY'RE VILLAGE ARE FROM THE CITY, THIS MAKE THEM WORKING HARD AND TRYING TO SET UP THEIR LIFE STYLE AS WELL AS CITY PEOPLE, BUT IT'S HARD. 
   







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