Forestry Value for Health Status: An Ecological Review

Abstract

Community forest (HKm) is a social forestry scheme located in the country’s forests by empowering people around forest areas. Management carried out by communities around forests must enhance ecological aspects with sustainable forest management Forest health can be an option to support sustainable forest management. Through forest health assessment, one can find out the status, changes, and tendencies experienced by a forest. This research aims to find out the value of forest health status in community forest management Gapoktan Margo Rukun and Harapan Sentosa, KPHL Batu Tegi, Tanggamus Regency, Lampung. The stages of the implementation of this study are the determination of plot clusters, the collection of data on forest health indicators (productivity, biodiversity, vitality, and quality of the site), and the final assessment of forest health. This study obtained the value of forest health with a range of values of 3.30 – 8.75. The average health status value of the community is 5.95, which is in the moderate category. Thus, the value of health status community orangutans managed in the condition of medium forest health.