PALMOILMAGAZINE, KOTAWARINGIN BARAT – The damage to shorelines in Central Kalimantan poses a significant threat to the province’s natural balance. A national disaster risk study indicates that extreme waves from tropical cyclones could cause severe abrasion in areas such as Kotawaringin Barat (Kobar).
Kamaludin, Assistant II of the Kobar Secretariat and representative of the Regent, stressed the need for more intensive preventive measures. He highlighted this during a recent mangrove planting event conducted by the Indonesian Palm Oil Association (IPOA) in Sebuai Village, Kobar, on Saturday.
Since 2021, IPOA, in collaboration with the Coordinating Ministry for Maritime and Investment, has been leading a mangrove rehabilitation project. In its third phase, the initiative has successfully planted 55,000 mangrove seedlings across 20 hectares.
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Mukti Sardjono, Executive Director of IPOA, reported that over the past three years, a total of 88,000 mangrove trees have been planted across 30 hectares of coastal areas, with a survival rate of approximately 90 percent.
“The mangrove rehabilitation program would be part of the commitment of IPOA to conserve the environment sustainably,” he said, as in the official statement to Palmoilmagazine.com, Monday (16/9/2024).
Tohari, Head of Village of Sebuai said that the program would positively deliver impacts significantly, not only hold on the abrasion effectively but also would create new ecosystem for sea life. “Mangrove rehabilitation program would be the real thing to prevent abrasion because of the climate change,” he said.
Tohari continued that mangrove conservation areas would maintain the coast ecosystem sustainably and deliver new economic advantages for the local to get new sources of income.
By the sustainable rehabilitation, it is hoped there would be awareness that it would be significant to conserve mangrove and coast abrasion management would get escalated in the province. (P2)
