MidLand, Jakarta – Provincial government Papua plant bamboo seedlings in the buffer area of the Cyclops Mountains Nature Reserve as part of environmental restoration efforts.
Papua Acting Governor Muhammad Ridwan Rudalamun, in his speech on the bamboo seedling planting activity in the buffer area of the Cycloop Mountains Nature Reserve in Sentani on Thursday, said that the bamboo plantation was aimed at building a natural fence for the Cycloop Mountains. Reserve.
“This activity also represents an important agenda for the Papuan Provincial Government in environmental restoration, which includes prevention, treatment and rehabilitation work that is carried out intensively, continuously and consistently,” the Acting Governor said in remarks read by Acting Assistant II for Economic Affairs and Papua Province Regional Secretary for People’s Welfare, Suzana D Wanggai, Thursday, November 16, 2023, as quoted by Antara.
He said PT Freeport Indonesia provided 10,000 bamboo seedlings to support efforts to save the Cycloop Mountains Nature Reserve.
The bamboo seedlings, he said, were planted in a 78-kilometer buffer area, starting from Pasir Dua area in Jayapura city to Maribu village in Jayapura regency.
He said the regional government is seeking to involve the private sector and community in efforts to restore the environment and conserve flora and fauna in the Cycloop Mountains Nature Reserve. “The Cycloop Nature Reserve has a very strategic value, because as a source of germplasm, it is rich in biodiversity of endemic Papuan flora and fauna,” she said.
As a protected area that includes lowland forests, coastal forests, low mountain forests, moss forests, ultrabasic forests and subclimax grasslands, according to him, the Cycloop Mountains Nature Reserve also plays an important role in absorbing carbon and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Previously, scientists had rediscovered a long-lost mammal species, described as having porcupine spines, anteater snout and mole legs, in Indonesia’s Cyclops Mountains, more than 60 years after it was last recorded.
Citing Reuters, Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna, named after British naturalist David Attenborough, was photographed for the first time with a trail camera on the last day of a four-week expedition led by scientists from University of Oxford.
After descending from the mountains at the end of the journey, biologist James Kempton discovered images of tiny creatures walking in the thick of the forest on the latest memory cards taken from more than 80 remote cameras.
“There was an extraordinary sense of euphoria, and also a sense of relief after being in the field for so long without any reward until the last day,” he said, describing the moment he first saw the filmed with collaborators of the Indonesian environmentalist group. YAPPENDA.
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“I shouted to my remaining colleagues… and said ‘we found him, we found him’ – I ran from my desk into the living room and hugged them.”
Echidna shares her name with the half-woman, half-snake Greek mythological creature, and is described by the team as a shy, burrow-dwelling nocturnal creature that is notoriously difficult to find.
“The reason these mammals look different from other mammals is because they are members of the monotremes, a group of egg-laying animals that separated from other mammals about 200 million years ago,” Kempton said.
This species has only been scientifically recorded once before, by a Dutch botanist in 1961. Several species of echidna are found throughout Australia and on the plains of New Guinea.
Kempton’s team survived earthquakes, malaria and even leeches stuck to their eyeballs during the journey. They partnered with the local village of Yongsu Sapari to navigate and explore remote areas in northeast Papua.
Echidnas are ingrained in local culture, including a tradition that states conflicts are resolved by sending one contestant into the forest to search for mammals and the other into the sea to search for marlin, according to elder Yongsu Sapari cited by the University.
These two creatures are considered very difficult to find, so it will take decades or a generation to find them. However, once found, the animal symbolizes the end of the conflict and the return to relationships harmonious.
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