Lampung national parks damaged

Lampung national parks damaged

BANDAR LAMPUNG: Around 35 percent out of the some 462,030
hectares of national parks in Lampung are believed to have been
damaged due to illegal housing, logging and fires, head of the
Lampung forestry agency said on Sunday.

"The damage has occurred in the conserved areas, natural
rehabilitation areas and hunting areas," Syamsuddin Rachmat said
as quoted by Antara.

The national park areas in Lampung include the 282,154-hectare
South Bukit Barisan national park, the 125,621-hectare Way Kambas
national park, the 17,281-hectare South Bukit Barisan sea
conservation area, 13,371-hectare Krakatau conservation area and
22,249-hectare Wan Abdul Rahman forest park.

"The reforestation and rehabilitation of the parks has been
conducted in some areas, but the rehabilitated areas are also
being damaged by locals but we don't know if it's deliberate or
not," Syamsuddin said without elaborating.

"There is are a lot of pressure from 'outside' to loot,
illegally log and of course there are forest fires which can't be
controlled by our agency," he added. (emf)