TINGKAT KERUSAKAN HUTAN MANGROVE PANTAI DI DESA MALAKOSA KECAMATAN BALINGGI KABUPATEN PARIGI MOUTONG

Abstract

The main cause of mangrove destruction was due to land convertion to housing, aquaculture, illegal loging.
Those uncontroled activities was neglect to consider the environmental
preservation. Malakosa is one of the village which has mangrove forest
, however most of the forest was declining in number, it is therefore
important research on the extent of damage to be done in order
to manage the mangrove forest. This phenomenon had motivated this
 research to investigate the extend and the caused of mangrove forest
 destruction in Malakosa village, Balinggi district, Parigi Moutong Regency.
This research employ Nested Sampling Method. Data was collected from
 three path. These includes path 1 at second floodgate, path 2 at first
 floodgate, and path 3 at third floodgate. Physic and water chemical
parameter observations was also conducted at these three different
 floodgates. The result shows that the extend of mangrove forest
destruction at malakosa village is between good to severe range
 continum, with density rate of 6700 btg/ha (low destruction),
1300 btg/ha (modest destruction), and 100 btg/ha (high destruction).
 Although the physic and water chemical effects on observation
 stations was still in good conditions, the salinity parameter and iron
 (Fe) parameters was found to be above the accepted standard.Keyword: Destruction, Forest, Mangrove