If you go to Timika, Papua, and wanted to be closer to nature, you can visit this place. Reclamation and Biodiversity Center of PT Freeport Indonesia covering an area of 23 thousand hectares is the area of deposition of sand tailings (tailings) or tailings are discharged from Grasberg.
General Superintendent Reclamation and Biodiversity Environmental Department PT Freeport Indonesia, Roberth Sarwom said the land was formed from 1980 to 1995. The thickness of the tailings in the area reached 7 meters.
"Here we have farms and plantations. We are planting vegetables and fruits then the results we send to the laboratory. Although this is grown in areas of tailings, lab results showed uptake of metals in vegetables and fruits are still within safe limits according to the recommendations of the POM," said Roberth ,
Besides butterflies, there are also breeding parrots and turtles pig snout or labi-labi. Roberth says the animals are mostly smuggled animals that failed and secured for later treated and released into their habitat.
"For birds, many of us tangkar the parrot king, parrot White parrot that much. It's about 100 birds that we care here. Then labi-labi, already 48 thousand that we release into the habitat of 2006 and 2015," Roberth said.
Not an easy thing to let go of the labi-labi to his native habitat, one in the Lorentz National Park. Working closely with the Natural Resources Conservation Center (BKSDA) local, labi-labi will be flown by helicopter to Asmat. Then, proceed by speedboat and then labi-labi up in the Lorentz National Park and released.
Generally, this is the place to come to school groups (kindergarten through high school) or the community. Visitors are not charged but must set a schedule for the streets where a mining road. Thus, can not arbitrarily to enter the road to get to here.
If you want to relax here, it could be you know. Therefore, there are facilities such as campgrounds and sports facilities such as a football field, a volleyball court, and table tennis.
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