Oil palm plays an important role in Indonesian economy. Development of palm oil supply chain creates a large number of employment, reduces poverty, increases foreign exchange earnings, and improves rural welfare. However, oil palm expansion has been claimed to be the source of deforestation, biodiversity loss, GHG emision, land and forest fires and land conflicts. Some private and non-governmen…
Bukit Tigapuluh National Park (BTNP) is an area who designated by the Minister of Forestry as a National Park with total area 127.698 ha based on decree No. 539/Kpt-II/1995. TNBT has a wealth of various types of wildlife, which Panthera tigris sumatrae is one of the wild animal that live with endanged status in BTNP. This is due to factors are always consider to occur because of the existence o…
In integrating basics, values and implementation of sustainable development into all aspects of education, the campus society is expected to understanding the existence of environmental development efforts that exist in their campus. This research aims to determine the understanding of the campus society on the aspect of recognition, management and utilization of Ecoedupark that exist at Riau U…
Nepenthes or more known as a carnivorous flower is one of the unique plant used as an ornamental plant. At this time , harvesting a carnivorous flower directly , the burning process and over the function of the forest species causing of this plant are increasingly scarce in indonesian including in the woods around the town of pekanbaru. This needs to be investigation concerning characteristics …
Nypa fruticans Wurmb producing sap that can be obtained through wiretapping fruit bunches. Nipa sap fresh taste sweet because it contains sugar which is quite high. Nipa sap is processed into bioethanol as a renewable energy source that is being developed still find obstacles in its management due to the community when the sap has been tapped then collected, indirectly sold and stored. The yiel…
Sentajo Protected Forest has various types of plants that can be used as raw material for making the path, one of them is Shorea spp. and Anisoptera spp.. The wood used as raw material for the path taken from Sentajo Protected Forest is Shorea spp. and Anisoptera spp. That have met the criteria that have been determined, so the availability of the plant is decreasing, because the crop is not ac…
Acacia mangium is a comodity of plantation industry that has been developed. To get a good quality of Acacia mangium must use proper cultivation techniques. Mycorrhizae and Trichoderma spp. can improve seedling growth and suppresses pathogenic soil, but need to know the potential time to apply. This research aim to know the potential application of mycorrhizal time and Trichoderma spp. to incre…
Paraserianthes falcataria are fast growing trees in the tropical and has many benefits economically. In order to avoid seeds of Paraserianthes falcataria not decrease the quality of seeds during storage. Seed treatment is necessary to keep the seeds able to survive until the time of planting by using Piper betle Linn. leaf as an antiseptic and disinfectant. The purpose of this study to determin…
Mangrove forests are important life-supporting ecosistem in coastal areas. According to Macnae (1968), mangrove is defined as a group of vegetation that grow between the highest water level during high tide and the lowest water level during low tide. At Teluk Pambang village, an organization called Kelompok Pengelola Mangrove (KPM) Belukap was formed due to the anxiety of nearby people to furth…
The higher growth of urban people and development of advanced technologies caused on a huge conversion on green areas to become public office, supermarket, industrial purpose, etc which decreasing the ecosystem sustainability of urban environment. One of offorts to manage urban environment, such as building urban forest. Urban Forest Cadika Hill is located on Bangkinang District, Kampar Regency…
Trionychia (Amyda cartilaginea) was a species that categorized in Appendix II of CITES and vulnerable or risky in IUCN Red List Data Book. Captivity was one way to support the conservation efforts of these animals and it germplasm.Captivity done to maintain endangered animals like Trionychia.This research aims to measure level of consumption and preference feed of juveniles Trionychia on some t…
The sumatran elephants including herbivorous animals that require the availability of sufficient food forage habitat. The sumatran elephants also need vegetated habitat trees for supplementary food to meet the needs of the mineral calcium to strengthen bones, teeth, and tusks. Digestion is not perfect, elephants need food very much is 200-300 kg of biomass per day for each adult elephants or 5-…
This research to investigate the characteristics of wood pellets from wood rubber waste as alternative renewable energy sources and determine the best treatment. This research was conducted in experiments with completely randomized design (CRD), which consists of three treatments three replications, with the use of wood rubber waste, tapioca flour and water as well as the tools use are peletmil…
National Park is a nature conservation area, in management there are many threats that can damage or reduce the national park area. One such threat is forest fires and land. Forest fires in Tesso Nilo National Parks (TNTN) generally caused by land clearing. Mechanisms for resolving problems of forest and land fires that occurred in TNTN at comprehensive, one application of the policy. Given the…
This research aims to observe the effect of the concentration combination of cytokines (Kinetin) and auxin (2,4-D) in the induction medium MS to the development of the apical meristem explant shoots of sago plant suckers. The research was carried out in the Laboratory of Plant Biotechnology Department of Agrotechnology Faculty of Agriculture, University of Riau, from October 2014 to January 201…
Shorea leprosula included major timber producing tree and widely used include the use of such, plywood, sawn timber, and buildings of contruction. Shorea leprosula production decreased amount, because most of the production comes from natural forests. The cultivation needed so shorea leprosula not become extinct, for it is important in the provision of quality seedlings. Shorea leprosula includ…
This research aims to identifies of the impact and level of termite’s attack on the building in the district Kuantan Singingi. This research was conducted from February to March 2015 using quantitative descriptive method. The sample of this research is 8 villages were taken from five subdistrict in Kuantan Singingi, in every village have been 10 houses were taken randomly, so the number of ho…
Acacia mangium Willd classified as plants that require nutrients are complete and available or Nutrient demanding crop, althought for grow and evolve requires a lot of nutrients that one of them is the phosphorus element. Phosphorus is needed absorption of nutrientsb by increasing the number of nodules on the roots so as to increase plant growth. The fertilization is one way that can be done to…
Nypa fruticans is the raw material for the manufacture of bioethanol. Bioethanol as biofuel is currently used as alternative fuel. Indonesia has a lot of Nypa fruticans plant as raw material but is unknown how the society interest in utilizing Nypa fruticans sap as a raw material of bioethanol. The purposes of this research are to find out the society interest of Lubuk Muda village in the use o…
The mangrove forest is a type of forest that grows in tidal areas, especially at the beach sheltered, laguna and mouth of river are flooded at high tide and low tide during the community of plants was intolerant of salt (Kusmana et al, 2003). The area has a mangrove ecosystem in Bengkalis is Teluk Pambang Village and need to be developed into the ecotourism area. Ecotourism development goal is …