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Anthropogenic Damage, Land Cover Change and Mitigation of Mount Hamiding Protected Forest Area in North Halmahera District, North Maluku Province-Wallace Zone, Indonesia

Version 1 : Received: 22 May 2023 / Approved: 23 May 2023 / Online: 23 May 2023 (08:32:20 CEST)
Version 2 : Received: 11 July 2023 / Approved: 17 July 2023 / Online: 17 July 2023 (10:51:58 CEST)

How to cite: Kailola, J.; Purwanto, R.; Sumardi, S.; Faida, L.R.W. Anthropogenic Damage, Land Cover Change and Mitigation of Mount Hamiding Protected Forest Area in North Halmahera District, North Maluku Province-Wallace Zone, Indonesia. Preprints 2023, 2023051624. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202305.1624.v1 Kailola, J.; Purwanto, R.; Sumardi, S.; Faida, L.R.W. Anthropogenic Damage, Land Cover Change and Mitigation of Mount Hamiding Protected Forest Area in North Halmahera District, North Maluku Province-Wallace Zone, Indonesia. Preprints 2023, 2023051624. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202305.1624.v1

Abstract

Mount Hamiding Protected Forest is located in North Halmahera Regency, North Maluku Province, the Wallace zone has an important role in providing protection functions, life support systems and regulating water management, preventing floods, preventing seawater intrusion, and controlling soil fertility. The protected forest area in the Wallace Zone is globally renowned for its endemic characteristics of flora and fauna. The condition of the protected forest of Mount Hamiding HMPF is currently experiencing anthropogenic damage as a result of forest encroachment, illegal logging, shifting cultivation, grazing and poaching to meet social needs. Anthropogenic damage has been in the spotlight for decades and has become a global issue. This study aims to determine damage to protected forests, changes in land cover, and mitigation of protected forest areas. This research uses quantitative and descriptive qualitative methods. Determination of research locations by purposive sampling. Parameters measured in this study were damage to protected forests, changes in land cover and area mitigation strategies. To identify forest damage, snowball sampling was carried out, and land cover changes through land cover data processing were obtained from the Ministry of Environment and Forestry of the Republic of Indonesia. Then using Imagery 7 ETM+ and 8 OLI to calculate changes in forested land to non-forested from 2006 -2021, analysis of land cover change using supervised classification, developing a strategy based on identity verification of forest damage and analysis of land cover change. The results showed that damage to protected forests was caused by anthropogenic disturbances in the form of forest encroachment, shifting cultivation, illegal logging, grazing and hunting of wild animals. Changes in land cover experienced the greatest damage in 2006-2021 amounting to 1,796.54 ha (16.17%). Strategic efforts are carried out using forest engineering, namely the agroforestry system and social engineering through community empowerment, namely training and outreach.

Keywords

anthropogenic; land cover change; mitigation; protected forest

Subject

Biology and Life Sciences, Forestry

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