Samarinda garden used for study

Samarinda garden used for study

SAMARINDA, East Kalimantan: The Samarinda Botanical garden (KRS) will be developed to become a research center for flora and fauna in East Kalimantan.

Earth Foundation chairman Ade Fadli said here on Sunday that the decision was made in a coordination meeting between local nongovernmental organizations and the local administration.

Fadli said the botanical garden should improve its function, not only as a recreation resort, but also as a conservation area and model for environmental conservation in the province.

"That is why local NGOs and the provincial administration plan to use the botanical garden as a research center for flora and fauna in the province," he said.

Mulawarman University, which was given the 300-hectare botanical garden by CV Kayu Mahakam, a forest concessionaire, in 1974, has worked in cooperation with the German and Japanese governments to manage it since 1976. --Antara