Borneo is known with the forest inside. The tropical forest is not only known in Indonesia but also in among the world. Governor of Central Kalimantan, Agustin Teras Narang has his special called to treasure of Borneo; he called “The Green Borneo.”
Governor of Central Kalimantan, Agustin Teras Narang called the treasure of Borneo, “The Green Diamond”. This term refer to say that how rich Central Kalimantan to the forest. Land of Central Kalimantan called Bumi Tambun Bungai.
The wide of Central Kalimantan reach 67,04 percent of wide of central Kalimantan province. By the wide, 1.848.485,60 ha is conservation area, that consist by Nature Tourism Park Tanjung Keluang, Game Preserve Lamandau, 3 wild life and 3 national park.
Land of Central Kalimantan mostly is turf land. Turf has function as absorption of carbon. Special in central Kalimantan, a third of it has depth more than 3 m and on reserved status. Beside of it, turfs have function as water catchment of trap the water and release it by step.
In the turf forest area, it consisted by Flora and Fauna. Flora consist of endemic tree of Borneo, such as Ramin, jelutung, belangeran, meranti, nyatoh, keruing, ulin, etc. then, various Fauna lives in dayak land. But among of dominate fauna, 3 groups of fauna are in the scarce and extinct. They are mammals (orang utans, bekantan, owa-owa, honey bear, antelope, mouse deer, etc) with amount 35 species of mammals. The next, on the bird groups such as enggang badak, enggang jambul putih, elang bondol, elang hitam, cucak hijau etc with amount 106 species. In the last groups is Fish, such as haruan, papuyu, kakapar, tapah etc, with amount 36 species.
Pruning and canal excavation are source of nature destroyed in land of dayak. Besides that, turf land also has danger of fire in summer. It is because the condition of turf is very dry, the water inside of turf flow to the canal. Then, it make flood in rainy season.
The forest fire occurs in turf land every year. Then it made fast damage to the forest in central Kalimantan. The fire is because by nature factor and also human act. The example of nature factor is rubbing of branch of tree by the wind, etc. human act is sometime people burn something to vary need, throw blunt of cigarette anywhere, etc.
More than a half of Forest in Central Kalimantan has changed function become plantation, both of palm oil and rubber tree.
Millions of wood, and trees cut in the forest, but local people less enjoy of the product of it. Most of them only become laborer in their land. (*)
