SAFE FOREST

Forest has important role to earth and its inhabitant. Recently, forest has undergone severe destruction that caused by illegal logging, open new palm oil plantation or farming field, and real estate. Its destruction also is caused by fire by natural or human careless activity. Forest vast became decline year by year, so it needs to us to safe them.

There are mechanisms in forest that must be understood by people to conserve and protect them. First, forest as home for kind of fauna. We must understand that they also have rights to live because they are creatures of God. If we disregard them by destroy them, this effect is looked currently by emerged kind of new diseases such as AIDS, bird flu, Ebola and others. Second, forest has function as carbon dioxide absorbing and oxygen generator. Earth in several past decade experience what scientist said as glass house effect that caused by enhance carbon dioxide content in atmosphere. In the otherwise oxygen is needed by creatures to respiration. Third, forest act to absorb rainwater all at once conserved it in its root. This thing will prevent rainwater to be flood in rain season and keep on water availability as long as drought season.

What important now that should be done is by restored forest to early condition. We can start by re-plant barren hill and slope terrain. This is important because it is as water absorbing area. It is easy way by plant elephant weeds and dicotyledonous tree seed interrupted of them. These weeds will protect slope land as long as main tree growth. The second is by re-plant upper course of river that will prevent flood at rain season and dried at drought season. It is important to keep green as long as riverbank too. The third is re-plant forest that already took its tree as log. The fourth is re-plant mangrove forest in coastline. Mangrove is important because it can prevent land abrasive that caused by sea wave. It is also home for kind of fish and birds. The fifth is by keep and protect forest that already decided as reserve and conservation forest constantly. The sixth is by make green strip on the middle and beside of high way also green park in city center. They will decrease air pollution that resulted gas exhaust from vehicles.

We must wise to use forest so that they do not dangerous our life, the next generation and others creature.