Analysis of Damage to Trees in the Coastal Mangrove Forest of East Lampung Regency

Abstract

Mangrove forests must have health conditions to maintain forest functions and ensure benefits for the community's welfare and living creatures around them. Based on this, an evaluation of the health situation of the woodland is essential to ensure that the health situation of the mangrove forests is maintained. This research was conducted to assess and obtain data and information on the health of mangrove forests withinside the coastal regions of the East Lampung Regency. The levels on this look have been figuring out the measurement plot, making the forest health measurement plot, collecting data, identifying tree health, and analyzing forest health data. The results of the research that have been carried out show that of the 8 cluster plots that have been made, it was found that the dominant types of damage were open wounds, damaged leaves, shoots, and shoots, as well as broken/dead branches. Then, the locations of most damage were found in sprouts and shoots, branches, lower stems, leaves, and the tops and bottoms of stems. The average forest health condition within the coastal location of East Lampung Regency is within the medium class with a median NKH fee of 5,29. This indicates that the mangrove forests are correctly applied and controlled via way of the encompassing communities, especially those who depend on these mangrove forests. So far, the government and the community have worked together to conserve mangrove forests.