Pelaihari, South Kalimantan (AntaranewsKalsel) - Regent Tanah Laut Bambang Alamsyah on Monday in Pelaihari signed inscription of mangrove planting. He says this as a starting point for the area to protect the environment.
According to him, mangrove forests have an impact, both for the region and the people who live around the coast. Benefits of mangrove forests, he said, to protect beaches from erosion, as a place to find food and shelter for fish marine and terrestrial organisms.
While the benefits of mangrove forests for human, he explained, as a raw material for firewood, and food alternatives.
It becomes a trigger for local governments to continue to rehabilitate mangrove forests, particularly efforts to restore the function of degraded mangrove forests, he said.
Furthermore, he argues, reforestation activities carried out against deforestation is one of the rehabilitation effort aimed not only restores the aesthetic value. "The purpose of most major rehabilitation is to restore the ecological function of the mangrove forest," he said.
Head of the Environment Agency (BLH) Riyadi said, Tanah Laut coastal mangrove forests covering an area of ​​2,518 hectares spread over five subdistricts.
"But of the 2,518 hectares of mangrove forests in the coastal area, the conditions are still good in area of ​​1,531 hectares, while 987 hectares of mangrove forests were damaged," he said.
According to him, the destruction of mangrove forests in the coastal areas of the district, due to climate change, coal loading and unloading activities in the special coal port and hostile environment.
In the rehabilitation of mangrove forest, BLH took 14 companies engaged in the specialized coal port operating in the Sub-district of Kintap.
