There are not leaving plenty of green space in Jakarta. Perhaps more than people realize, but still very little. What remains is worth preserving, not only because it is a few photo opportunities looks nice and offers, but because it can be a vital resource in educating children.
Muara Angke is home to a small piece of mangrove swamp in North Jakarta. Hemmed in housing estates and row after row of shophouses, Muara Angke is what Jakarta used to look like before the developers were allowed to do their bit.
on the west bank of the Angke River mangrove is perhaps the last area of its kind in our capital. Incredibly, it is home to around 91 species of birds and monkeys, reptiles and amphibians. It is also dirty as the generated waste upstream collects in the streams and the pools, the animals call home.
It is probably fair to say not many Jakartan residents aware of the mangroves on its northern shores are. But Muara Angke is famous all over the world birding community with twitchers since the keen among them are known, willing to travel long distances to travel to catch a glimpse of the extremely rare Javan Coucal which in only a few places can be found on the north coast of Java.
Jakarta Green Monster is an NGO that raise 'awareness of children aims what is around them. With children on the sidewalk below, they have the type who call this part of the world at home. The water and the trees are alive with the sounds of animals, especially first thing in the morning when the wildlife awakens from its slumber and studied Breakfast. Only a few feet away, Jakartans head completely unaware of their places of work of nature on your doorstep.
SMP Santa Laurensia is a fairly typical middle class private school from Jakarta overspill. Most children living in air-conditioned bubbles, completely unaware of the vitality almost in their own backyard. On a recent trip to Muara Angke students saw a Jakarta they knew that it never existed, looked a mess, she knew and learned how we could damage our environment still further prevent too well.
The day with Hendra Aquan started by JGM to give some background information about the children - information that was probably close lost in the excitement of seeing monkeys. It was a steep learning curve for this city children. Watching Discovery Channel is all well and good, but there is nothing like getting on the road, the smells breathe, to see the animals and the understanding of the dirt.
division into groups, led respectively by a JGM volunteers, the children set about their appointed task. In the manner of schoolchildren everywhere, she moaned. It was too hot, nothing to see, boring. The complaints are universal, but gradually, one by one, they have wrapped in experience. Whether it was the enthusiasm and knowledge of volunteers or whether they were to the sheer fact traveling in nature they took in their binoculars and cameras and set on the day of admission.
startled egrets and herons Seeing the sound of 35 young people flee was a highlight for children who are rarely seen birds in their natural environment. Rarely can a giant heron have so much attention when flying at horizon. Everything was new and to inquire fought throughout the natural tendency of children and defeated the earlier doubts and complaints.
Under Pointing and the yelps of joy was a lonely Australian gentleman with binoculars. He had just traveled from Sydney a Javan Coucal spy and had little counted on the enthusiasm of dozens of children in order to keep the birds well hidden.
wereAfter a well-earned lunch it along the Angke River taken in a boat for yourself to see how so rubbish casually upriver effects not only the animal ~~ POS = TRUNC, but also fishermen rejected the opposite the mangrove life. They 'oohed' and 'aahed' at the high, elegant birds that lined the riverside and low branches, how they wanted their lunch in the dirty waters.
Back on dry land followed a few presentations, and then the fun was little. Children around the world love to get dirty and these guys were no exception, as they kicked off her shoes and in the still bottoms jumped collect some of the collected waste. The area was covered as a part of the whole site minimal. The garbage collected filled several bags, but it was still out there more. Much more.
other garbage people Cleaning is a thankless task, and the key lies in education. Working with Jakarta Green Monster learned the students a lot about the environment and how their actions can affect it. The children of Santa Laurensia will not change anything. Not for themselves. As a student said: "My brother always throws his trash on the ground, if I do not tell him, because it looks ugly and harms the environment, he says he does not care, he does not live there.."
but can if more schools in this type of activity to get involved if Jakarta Green Monster are able then to participate may slow local communities, but surely growing environmental awareness in Jakarta on a grassroots level, and the word will spread
For more information :.
Alam Jakarta Ady Kristianto
www.jgm.or.id
http://www.jakmangrove.org/
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