Education environment society buffer forest Wonoasri Betiri Meru National Park through approach participatory

Abstract

This research was conducted with the aim to improve the practical understanding of society buffer forest Wonoasri Betiri Meru National Park design with the participation of they directly to carry out various ecological improvement activities by adding the amount of productive endemic vegetation such as durian, langsep, candlenut, grip, Java chili and pepper. Besides that, life skills are improved in order to increase community economic income such as animal feed, raising rangrang ants, herbal medicine making, natural color batik skills with animal and plant theme Meru Betiri National Park such as Javanese eagle motifs, Raflesia flowers, Javanese tiger claws, and so on, and other life skills improvement. The study was conducted for 15 months from 2016 to 2018. The results showed that the provision of environmental education that was designed in a participatory manner in the ecological community of Wonoasri had increased as follows. Soil fertility increased (from less than 1 to 1.3%), the addition of edemic tree stands to 91,824 seedlings, the formation of a land management understanding of 451 land tenure farmers, increased kabon uptake (from 974 tCO2eq to 1,913 tCO2eq), increased oxygen production (from 842t to 871t), plant diversity and Arthropods (from low to medium diversity, H = 1 to H = 2.5). As for aspects of life skills, there was an increase with the formation of 8 economic clusters