Last modified: 2019-08-14
Abstract
The damage of the mangrove area in Gresik Regency reached more than 30% or more than 25 ha. Three main factors were causing the damage, namely logging of mangroves to make fish ponds, logging of mangroves as the location of fishing boats and logging of mangroves for sale. The economic interest of the community was the main factor.
The problem formulation to be answered was how to increase the area of existing mangrove areas or at least maintain existing ones. Was there a way that could be taken to maintain mangrove while increasing community income? How could the solution be accepted and run by the community? How could the solution be sustainable?
With the various questions above, the author began a mangrove nursery mentoring project in Banyuruip in 2014. The author implemented community based or participatory project. The participatory method made people felt they had the mangrove program so they encouraged to run better. For this paper, the author adopted the stages of action research from Aden and Ackerman because the project has been running for 5 years, time to do an evaluation. These stages were pre-understanding, operation design, genuine practice, action-focused intervention, elaborate theory-other practice.
The result was concluded that the existing mangrove nursery was the factor that made Banyuurip Village famous and the community was proud of it. Also, the location of mangrove nursery indirectly had become the location of ecotourism because many people visited, even though the location was a landfill. The mangrove nursery could sell 145,000 seeds for Rp 1,500 per seed. Most of the seeds were planted in the Ujungpangkah District. The size of the nursery grew from 100 m2 to 336 m2 and could breed more than 10 species of mangroves.