Whose World Urban Forest?
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
The United Nations declared Babakan Siliwangi a world urban forest. Yet the Bandung city government has given permission to the private sector to build a restaurant there.
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THE sun beat down on the lands of Parahyangan causing sweat to flow and eyes to squint. But, Tuesday afternoon last week, hundreds of kindergarten students gathered at the Babakan Siliwangi forest were not overheated. The big trees, like mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla) and papua pines (Cupressus papuanus), make the air always feel cool.
Accompanied by parents and teachers, the children busily planted seedlings so that the neighborhood of Lebak Si
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