Palu, C Sulawesi, Nov 25 (antarasulteng.com) - The National Park of Lore Lindu (TNLL) has formed teams to take inventory of forest and bush lands gutted by fires in dry season in 2015 in Central Sulawesi.
"The plan is to make a program of recovery of forest destroyed by fires," head of the TNLL Sudaryatna said here on Wednesday.
In a meeting a few days earlier, it was agreed to form a number of teams to collect data from different areas, Sudaryatna said.
The data would be needed to set the recovery program starting in 2016, he said.
Provisional estimate said there were 300 hectares of forests and bush lands gutted by fires in 2015, he said.
Altogether, TNLL covers a total area of 217,000 hectares partly in the territorial area of the district of Poso and the other part in the district of Sigi.
There are 74 villages near TNLL.
A much larger forest areas in other regions in the country have been devastated by fires over the past three months during lengthy drought worsened by weather phenomenon.
Kalimantan and Sumatra were the hardest hit with fires destroying millions of hectares of tropical forests.
Worse damage was caused by haze of smokes from the forest fires causing difficulty to breathe and outbreak of respiratory track infection.
Vision was blurred by the haze disrupting flight schedules causing huge losses to airlines
Tnll Forms Teams To Take Inventory Of Forests Gutted By Fires
tnll Kepala Balai Besar Taman Nasional Lore Lindu, Sudaryatna, MM (Foto Antara/Anas Masa)
