RI's biodiversity not being exploited<\/p>\n
BOGOR (JP): Indonesia hosts one of the most complex and rich
\nbiodiversities in the world with 4,000 types of trees, a wide
\nrange of flowering plants as well as species of apes, reptiles,
\namphibians and mammals, a minister said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\"But the sad part is that only a small part of that
\nbiodiversity is being utilized,\" Minister of Forestry and
\nPlantations Nur Mahmudi Ismail said here hours before his
\nappointment as Junior Minister of Forestry in the line-up of the
\nnew Cabinet announced by President Abdurrahman Wahid later in the
\nday.<\/p>\n
\"Most of it is wasted due to lack of knowledge,\" he said.<\/p>\n
The main target of forest development is to rehabilitate
\nforests and plantations damaged in the exploitation process and
\nat the same time lift people's welfare, Nur Mahmudi said.<\/p>\n
Speaking at a national seminar on biodiversity at the Research
\nCenter for Food Plants in Bogor, the minister also said the
\nimprovement of the genetic quality of food plants is the key to
\nboosting the existing forest and plantation productivity.
\n(21\/edt)<\/p>",
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