The community-based conservation management in gunung sewu unesco global geopark cased study of Nglanggeran Geoheritage

Abstract

Nglanggeran geoheritage is considered successful, sustainable, and get some recognition from the national and international organization. This site has established purely from the community engagement to take care of their environment by restoring the environment around the ancient volcano areas. The objective of the research is to explore the management model and community participation in conservation activities at the site. The data were collected by the field survey and interview at Nglanggeran village. The data is analyzed by descriptive analysis. The result shows the village create its characteristic strategy to conserve the geoheritage through tourism based on its local resource combined with the concept of Community-based conservation (CBC) adopting from ASEAN Community Based Tourism (CBT) Standard. Nglanggeran stakeholder was able to meet the standard, especially in Standards for conserving natural resources and Standards for conservation activities to improve the environment. The community-based conservation can contribute to the objectives of Agenda 21 at the local scale, highlighting the potential for interaction between socioeconomic development and conservation of the geoheritage natural environment. The community-based conservation is a starting point for tourism to preserve geoheritage through involving and raising public awareness of local communities.