LOVE of THE NATURE, ADOPT THE CORAL
Les Village is a fishermen village at Tejakula District north Bali, a fantastic little village with great sunset and sunrise.
Since early 80's the fishermen at Les have been harvesting marine ornamental fish. To catch the fish, they used Potassium Cyanide, the same method that is widely used in Indonesia until today.
The effect of Cyanide had destroyed their reef and poisoned the fish. The quality of fish was very bad, the mortality rate was very high, the price of the fish was very low. While in the early days, the fish population was still abundant. Time passed by and the condition changed. The reef was badly damaged and the fish population decreasing dramatically, while fishing is the only profession they can do.
In 2000, Bahtera Nusantara Foundation came into the village. They introduced an eco-friendly method to catch fish, and since then, the fishermen at Les commence the use of this net system to catch their fish. The result was excellent, soon they caught better fish and the degradation of their coral reef stopped.
Revolutionized catching method is the first step of the whole concept of Community Based Integrated Marine Eco Trading and Eco Tourism Management.
The whole entire concept are:
1. Stop the destructive fishing method
2. Apply Collection Area Management Plan (CAMP)
3. Coral reef rehabilitation
4. Provide alternative livelihood to the fishermen.
The end goal of this concept is to conserve the environment while maintain the livelihood of the people.
Les Village fishermen have formed a formal group among them. The group is “Mina Bhakti Soansari”. The group is responsible to apply the concept of the Community Based Integrated Marine Eco Trading and Eco Tourism Management.
Up till now, the first and the second steps of the concept have been successful. They are now at the third stage and moving to the fourth .
The coral rehabilitation was implemented but rather slow. Since today, the coral rehabilitation is self funded and some from the un regular donation from the guests that visit the site.
To be able to speed up their efforts to rehabilitate their coral, they have initiated an idea to let other people to adopt “their” coral. Therefore the “Adopt the Coral” project was formed.
The goals of “Adopt the Coral” project are :
1. Fund raising to be able to continue their coral rehabilitation project.
2. To allow other people to participate and create sense of belonging to their coral farming project.
3. Alternative livelihood to the fishermen rather than catching ornamental fish.
4. Build underwater coral garden for eco diving tourism.
Be part of the nature recovery………
It is the time for you to be part of nature recovery and enjoy your own
marine garden by being a coral adopter.
There are limited number of coral are ready to be
adopted for marine garden at Les Village
The coral is taken from the previously planted fragment and maintained by fishermen
For each coral adopted, the adopters name will be put on substrate.
picture of your planted coral on digital version file will be sent to your attention by email.
If you wish to have a printed picture delivered on your door,
please send us your inquiry and we will be happy to provide it.
We also provide pictures of growing corals during maintenance as an optional request.
Let everybody know that you are part of proud as Coral Adopter
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