"The funds taken from the regional budget will be used to reforest denuded land in forest areas," Head of the Bali Provincial Forestry Service Anak Agung Ngurah Buana said here on Friday.
The provincial government is determined to reforest denuded land inside and outside forest areas, he said.
"The reforestation program this year will target 500-600 hectares of denuded land inside forest areas. A variety of drought-resistant trees will be grown there," he said.
To date, the province has 25,338 hectares of denuded land found in eight of its nine districts. The denuded land is mostly found in Karangasem, Klungkung, Karangasem and Bangli districts.
Through the reforestation program the denuded land can hopefully be reforested in stages, he said.
He said various kinds of trees typical to the province, such as mahogany, trembesi, and panggal buaya will be grown through the reforestation program to meet wood demand from small-scale handicraft industry.
Bali now has 130,686 hectares of forest consisting of 95,766 hectares of protected forest (73.28 percent), 26,293 hectares of conservation forest (20.12 percent) and 8,626 hectares of production forest (6.60 percent).
The forest is made up of 22 percent of the province's land territory. Ideally, the forest should account for 30 percent of the land territory, he said.(*)
: Nyoman Budhiana
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