Friday, April 23, 2010

Non-Wood For Commodity Ecotourism

Recreation usual places of entertainment such as amusement parks, cinemas and late bloom play in shopping malls. But not a few people who want to seek pleasure in the outdoor (out door recreation) to enjoy the fresh air, beautiful scenery and natural atmosphere is comfortable, and enjoy the stunning landscape. Everyone has a different preference levels of the area that became the attraction. This causes the needs of the community will be increased tourism. With the increasing demand of tourism, the current tourism activities has been intensified. In addition to fulfilling the needs of the tourists can also increase the welfare of the surrounding community. 

Bamboo Forest Folk

Wealth of non-timber forest products are part of the wealth of forest resources in Indonesia may be one alternative to reducing the use of wood in the forest are increasingly limited existence. Bamboo one of them, now highly developed use. At first only as household goods, are now increasingly evolved into a variety of industrial purposes, so for people in rural areas are categorized as primary support their economy.

One thing that is profitable from the bamboo plant is growing quite done only once, easily grown in suitable habitat and then stayed to harvest it. In the course of growth is affected by the ecological conditions, cropping patterns and appropriate maintenance techniques and thus environmental factors are important to know in order to produce optimally.

Benefits of Forestry Moratorium

There are seven useful if we want to do actions Timber Pause. Logging interval [a moratorium on logging] is the freezing or suspension of the entire large-scale logging activities (scale industries) for certain temporary until a desired condition is reached.
The advantage of logging interval (a moratorium on logging):

- Holding down the rate of rainforest destruction in Indonesia;
- Able to monitor illegal logging and ambushes;
- Opportunity forestry industry restructuring;
- Set the tenure rights of forest resources;
- Increasing the resources of non-timber forest;
- Correcting the domestic timber market distortions;
- Restructuring and rationalization of the wood processing industry;
- Correcting over-capacity industry;
- Forcing the industry to improve the efficiency of raw materials and build the plant forests.