Challenges and opportunities of biodiversity park as a togong-tanga indigenous peoples conservation area in banggai kepulauan, central Sulawesi

Abstract

Biodiversity Park has a function as a research and biodiversity. Protected areas become a conservation strategy area. This research aims to look at the opportunities and challenges of a biodiversity park as a conservation area with a spatial, descriptive and SWOT analysis that includes physical and social factors. Land use spatial variables uses land use, slope, and function of forest area. Social factors focus on the local ecology of indigenous peoples and also Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFP) at the park. On the physical factor, some points of the park are of attractive natural beauty such as beautiful cliffs. In terms of social factors, local ecological knowledge of indigenous peoples can be said to be quite good. The indigenous peoples at all points already have good knowledge about the diversity of flora and fauna in their area. The challenge of the biodiversity park as a conservation area is that the general public in the whole village does not understand how to protect the environment. In a focus group discussion at the point of Mangais village, that the community is more concerned with wages that can be obtained in the short term.