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Prince Charles visits forest restoration project in Jambi
The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Sun, 11/02/2008 3:15 PM | National
The Prince of Wales, arrived in Jambi on Sunday morning on a visit to oversee a project in Batanghari regency designed to restore the forest's ecosystem and save endangered species.
The prince arrived at Sultan Thaha Syaifuddin Airport around 11:15 p.m. The airport was tightly guarded and journalists were only allowed to take pictures from a distance, Antara reported.
After a short rest, the prince left the airport for Bungku village in Batanghari, about 125 kilometers from the city of Jambi.
The Harapan Rainforest project, dubbed BirdLife -- developed by a consortium consisting of Burung Indonesia, International Bird Life and the London-based Royal Society for the Protection of Birds -- operates in more than 50,000 hectares of forest. The project is part of the Prince's Rainforests Project.
In April, the government granted the consortium permission to manage the wildlife-rich lowland rainforest area in Sumatra for 100 years. The consortium is currently undertaking a forest restoration project on a 52,000-hectare area of forest in South Sumatra. (dre)
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