IDENTIFIKASI POTENSI EKOWISATA SEBAGAI PENUNJANG KONSERVASI HUTAN MANGROVE DI DESA TELUK PAMBANG KECAMATAN BANTAN KABUPATEN BENGKALIS
Abstract: The mangrove forest
is plants that live in the mouth of the river and were able to survive in the
tide. The area has a mangrove ecosystem in Bengkalis is Teluk Pambang Village
and need to be developed into the ecotourism area. Ecotourism development goal
is to protect the existing potentials in the mangrove forests and became one of
the alternative sources in raising funds for conservation activities. This
research purpose to identify the ecotourism potential of mangrove forest in
Teluk Pambang Village, Bantan District Bengkalis Regency, to knowing the
efforts and forms of conservation for the development of ecotourism and to knowing the correlation of ecotourism potential
as a supporting mangrove forest conservation. The method that used in analyzing
the potential of ecotourism is based on the analysis of mangrove vegetation
that expressed in the formula English et al. (1997) to obtain density and the
importance of community structure of mangrove conservation, efforts and forms was processed using a Likert Scale and
the relation of potential ecotourism as a supporting mangrove forest data was
processed by descriptive. The results of this research indicate that the ecotourism
potential of mangrove forest in the Teluk Pambang Village, consists of very
density mangrove forest. Station I had a
density of 2,967 ind/ha, station II has a density of 5,778 ind/ha and Station
III has a density of 4,688 ind/ha, vegetation and wildlife are varieties and
landscape of ecotourism still nature. Efforts and forms of conservation were
managed by the Manage Group of Mangrove (KPM) Belukap, habits and knowledges of
local communities (local wisdom) in Teluk Pambang Village and participation of
respondents to the conservation efforts. The correlation of ecotourism
potential to support conservation of mangrove forests are a visitor, education
and research.
Penulis: Fanda Asnita Yusefa
Ambarita, Defri Yoza, Rudianda Sulaeman
Kode Jurnal: jppertaniandd150723
