Identification Result from Conservation International (CI) institution showed that Bali has 25-biodiversity center. Still those 25 biodiversity until today has not manage.

Among those 25-biodiversity center areas are Nusa Dua, Uluwatu, Nusa Penida, Amed, Les, Lovina, Pemuteran and Perancak.

Director of CI Marine Program, Ketut Sarjana Putra in his statement in the middle of Indonesia Biodiversity Research Center (IBRC) initiation in Denpasar, Tuesday (August 10th) confessed that ecologically the 20 biodiversity center area is part of the kitchen of Bali coastal economic and marine resource.

That biodiversity center area also part of social and cultural area of Bali coastal people.

“From social and cultural point of view in Bali the beach which is always used as a place for melasti – purification – if did not manage well would make the melasti culture gone too, thus, this center area has no ecologic function only but also social and cultural function,” said Ketut Sarjana Putra.

Ketut Sarjana Putra stated, viewing from it land mass the 25 biodiversity center area in Bali reached around 70.000 hectare.

That 70.000 hectare of biodiversity center area is part of the whole triangular area of world’s reef.

News by Berita Bali