Bio-diversity

GOAL The condition of marine resources of Hoga Island is conserved based on eco-tourism, it is expected to provide positive input to the efforts of conserving marine natural resources of Hoga island which has been known as Marine Research Location, and to provide an alternative income generating activity for the people of Bajo Sampela. OBJECTIVES Objective 1 Increasing community capacity of environmental conservation-based ecotourism Indicator : 1. The decline in illegal fishing (bombing and cyanide) practiced by the community 2. Community can create an environmentally friendly, alternative energy sources 3. Community can manage marine resources as tour packages with economic value 4. Communities gain knowledge to carry out coral rehabilitation and maintenance Activities : a. Training on diving and coral transplantation techniques Out put : - Participants are able to dive in diving equipments - Participants are able to carry out coral transplantation Implementation methods : Through theory and practice Participants : 20 people(Representatives from target groups and rural communities) b. Training on the use of environmentally friendly fishing gear Out put : Participants are able to use fishing gear (floating fish cages and nets) that are environmentally friendly Implementation methods : Through theory and practice Participants : 20 people(Representatives from target groups, village government and rural communities) c. Training on the use of alternative energy through constructing solar panels-kitchen Out put : Participants are able to make solar panel kitchen as an alternative energy of firewood (mangrove) Implementation methods : Through theory and practice Participants : 20 people(Representatives from target groups, village government and rural communities) d. Training on development and management of tour packages Out put : Participants are able to identify the potential of their area and manage them into tour packages Implementation methods : Through theory and practice Participants : 20 people (Representatives from target groups, village government and rural communities) e. Training on organizational management Out put : Participants are able to organize a group in order to achieve group`s vision. Implementation methods : Theory and simulation Participants : 20 people (Representatives from target groups, village government and rural communities) Objective 2 Coral reefs at 5 Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in the coastal of Hoga island are rehabilitated Indicator : Coral reefs at 5 MPAs are rehabilitated through coral transplantation techniques Activities : Coral transplantation on this project will be carried out in five MPAs that have been damages known from reef checking. Transplantation is technically divided into three stages: a. Reef chek and area plotting b. Material (substrate) of coral transplantation procurement c. Coral transplantation The last activity in this series is monitoring and supervision of coral transplantation or post-transplant maintenance. This is especially important for the success of transplantation process. To support this, the project needs to provide 10 sets of diving equipments and one compressor as tools being used for transplantation. The activity will be held by target groups and rural communities that previously had been given training on diving skill and coral transplantation techniques and will be guided by a technical team from the implementing institution. Objective 3 Community can take advantage of alternative energy sources through the construction of 25 unit of sollar panel kitchen Indicator : Members of target group and rural community target no longer use mangrove for firewood Activities : Construction of 50 units of Solar Panel Kitchen Mangrove forest is the place to live and breed for various marine species. Currently the maintenance of mangrove forest is neglected due to its exploitation to meeting community needs. Government and community efforts to rehabilitate mangrove forests seem to be in vain because people are still very dependent on the use of this plant as their energy source for daily needs. Destruction of mangrove forests indirectly gives negative impact on the sustainability of other marine lives such as fish and coral reefs. Through this activity, the people of Samabahari (Bajo Sampela) Village who mostly still use mangroves as firewood for their daily needs will be able to utilize alternative energy source as substitute for firewood. The construction of 50 units of solar panel kitchen as alternative energy is intended so that people will no longer use mangrove as firewood. Avoiding the use of mangroves as firewood for the family needs through increasing awareness, is not enough, other alternative energy is needed to be able to replace community habits in the use of mangrove. In this activity, together both the target groups and community will produce solar panel kitchen, technically guided by the technical team that has been formed. Objective 4 : Community is able to catch fish by using environmentally friendly fishing gear Indicator : Community is no longer using fishing gear that is not environmentally friendly such as fish bomb and cyanide to catch fish Activities : Fishing using gear that is not environmentally friendly or is often known as illegal fishing is the most dominant factor contributing positively to the damage of coral reefs in the sea area of Hoga Island. There have been many efforts to suppress the occurrence of illega

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