Mount Dempo (3.157 MDPL) in Pagaralam City not only offers tourist attraction in the form of tea plantation stretch only.
Behind it, people who climbed the only mountain in South Sumatra Province hunted endemic plants called longevity wood just prove ever reach the top of the mountain.
Plants with another name Centigi (Vaccinum SP) which only live at an altitude of more than 3,000 MDPL present existence is increasingly rare.
Long wooden population whose fruit can only be found while at the top of Mount Dempo is increasingly reduced due to frequent climbers.
"Nowadays, the number of longwood trees is getting less and less, if one climber cuts down this tree, how many long timber trees are exhausted, because the rogue and mischievous climbers climb quite a lot to Puncak Dempo," said Head of Forestry and Estate Crops Dishutbun) Pagaralam City Jumaldi Jani SP, MM
To Sripo a few days ago.
To anticipate the taking of this long-lived timber tree by the climbers, Dishutbun Kota Pagaralam mobilized 30 personnel of the Forest Police (Polhut) at several entrances to the summit of Mount Dempo.
If anyone is caught picking up a longwood tree, it will be given strict sanctions according to the rules.
"We will give firm action to climbers who trim the longwood trees, otherwise in a year the long wood will be exhausted," he said.
It's Punishment If Caught Take Longevity Wood
Meanwhile, according to the Secretary General of Nature Lovers Forum (Forpa) Pasemah Pagaralam City, Arindi, the absence of rules that prohibit taking long-life wood, making people freely take endemic tree species.
Source: Sriwijaya post dan urban hikers
