PANGKALPINANG -- Sustainable environmental management is one of PT Timah Tbk's important commitments in its business activities. This member of the MIND ID Mining Industry holding carries out biodiversity management (Kehati) to reduce the impacts resulting from mining and tin refining business activities.
Management efforts carried out include the Protective Forest, there are several PT Timah Tbk Protective Forest areas such as the Muntok Metallurgical Unit, West Bangka, and the Kundur Metallurgical Unit in Karimun Regency.
Biodiversity forests are ecosystems that are full of biodiversity and have a major impact on overall environmental health.
The existence of the Biodiversity Forest is also a conservation effort carried out by PT Timah Tbk to protect and preserve the flora and fauna in the area so that they remain sustainable and do not become extinct.
PT Timah's Biodiversity Forest in these two areas also grows various trees.
PT Timah Tbk's Biodiversity Forest has also been made into a City Forest like in the Muntok Metallurgical Unit.
In this Biodiversity Forest area, PT Timah Tbk preserves various types of endemic flora and fauna. Because we realize that flora and fauna play an important role in the balance of the ecosystem within it.
Not just managing, PT Timah Tbk also carries out monitoring in the Biodiversity Forest, such as measuring biomass and monitoring the types of flora and fauna in the area.
The presence of PT Timah Tbk's Biodiversity Forest, apart from having an ecological function, is also a means of increasing knowledge, disseminating information or comparative studies, as well as contributing to the community around its operations.
For example, recently the Adiwiyata Cadre of West Bangka Regency conducted a field study in the Kehati City Forest in the Muntok Metallurgical Unit Area of ??PT Timah Tbk.
Functionalist at the West Bangka Environmental Service, Diki, said this activity was to increase knowledge for students so they could change their behavior to love the surrounding environment and utilize conservation forests.
"Through the City Forest, the Metallurgical Unit provides knowledge to students about the benefits of this conservation. With lots of neatly arranged trees, we can maintain the availability of water and clean air, thereby improving our quality of life," he explained.
Marsya, a student at SMPN 4 Mentok, admitted that she was happy with this visit because she could gain knowledge about loving nature from the Meralurgi Unit Conservation Forest
"The feeling is happy, the forest view is beautiful, there are animals, here we get knowledge about how to protect nature and love animals," said Marsya. (*)
