M. Nasir Tamalene, Mimien Henie Irawati Almudhar
Logging and industrial mining have brought rapid change to the functions of forests. This also occurred on Halmahera Island, Indonesia. The Togutil ethnic group who lived in the Halmahera forest, especially in Buli village, had lost their local practical knowledge related to traditional forest conservation. This was due to the existence of nickel mining in their indigenous forest area. The study location was an area far from mining activity; therefore, local knowledge-based forest conservation practice could still be found. Research results show that the Togutil ethnic group on Halmahera Island, especially in the Akelamo and Oba, Tidore Kepulauan areas, had local knowledge of traditional forest ecosystem management through the classification of forest areas where there existed zones of food and medicinal plants, hunting, plantation and settlements, bird habitats, taboo, and watersheds. The classification of forest areas through a zone system was a conservative practice of biodiversity by maintaining local tradition.
Researchers Ethnobiological, Universitas Khairun, Jl. Bandara Babullah Kampus 1, Akehuda Ternate, Indonesia; Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science, Universitas Negeri, Malang, Indonesia
