THREATS TO TITAN ARUM

 

1. LACK OF KNOWLEDGE AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION

 

Unfortunately, education in Indonesia shows a complete ignorance of issues related to ecology and environmental protection. The inhabitants do not have the basic knowledge about endangered species. With each year, deteriorating soil and water due to contamination of the environment.

 

2. LOCAL BELIEFS / SUPERSTITIONS

 

despite the fact that we have a twenty-first century  somewhere, in small villages in the Indonesian jungle  people still believe in the old myths and superstitions. It is a fascinating phenomenon for ethnographic and cultural studies, unfortunately, is not conducive to the Titan Arum. According to folk legends flower eats small animals and humans. Proof of this is the smell of carrion, which brings with it. People often destroy the plants, then the same flowers in fear "devoured"

 

3. DEFORESTATION

 

A growing number of people and the increasing needs led to wasteful forest policy. Unfortunately, Indonesia is at the forefront of countries where deforestation is greatest. WWF estimates that half of Sumatra's forest cover has disappeared from 1985 is 2008. The forest cover has gone from 50% to 25%.

 

4. OIL PALM PLANTATIONS

 

Oil palm is one of the most desirable and profitable product, approximately equatorial countries. The products obtained from the processing as oil, copra are used to produce almost every cosmetic, many food products, are used in the manufacture of high-energy biofuels. Unfortunately, oil palm grows only in the humid equatorial climate. So palm plantations are replacing traditional agriculture and absorb a growing expanse of equatorial forests, water resources. Every year grub and burning hundreds of acres of forest for new plantations (often illegally), killed at the same time thousands of animals and plants (often endemic), native nomadic tribes are forced to assimilate, quoted are cases where at plantations people are employed in slave labor , often children. Since 2005, almost every year is observed the phenomenon of Southeast Asian haze. Smoke and toxic gases formed during the burning of forests in arrears in the atmosphere, creating a dense, toxic, persistent fog for weeks. In the previous year (2014) in January haze remained over 2 months and contribute ultimately reach of Sumatra, Borneo, Malaysia, Singapore, dating back to southern China.

 

5. PESTICIDES / PERSONAL PROTECTION PRODUCTS

 

 the progress and civilization to reach traditional agriculture pesticides and fertilizers that are often fatal to the soil and insects. Amorphophallus is pollinated by one species of bees, which often victims of chemistry. In the course of our research We observed plants that not formed a seed. Could it be the reason?