Judul: Perencanaan lanskap kawasan ekowisata gambut baning di Kota Sintang Kalimantan Barat
Abstrak: Peatlands play an important role in maintaining the stability of the global ecosystem. Indonesia has the largest peatlands in tropical countries with an estimated 20.6 million ha, which is spread mainly in Sumatra, Kalimantan, and Papua, made Indonesia the fourth largest country in the world for peat reserves after Canada, Russia and the United States. The uniqueness of peatland ecosystems at Sintang City with a distinctive flora and fauna has potency for ecotourism objects and attractions, therefore this area would be developed as an ecotourism area. Study objective was to describe and analyze the ecological character of the area; to analyze the ecotourism potential of the area; to analyze public support for the city to the ecotourism development plan at the area; to analyze the support of city development plan to planned area; to plan an ecotourism landscape area of Baning peatlands in Sintang City based on ecological character, ecotourism potential, community support and its links with city development plan. Descriptive qualitative method was used to analyze ecological condition, ecotourism potency, and city development support, AHP method for analyze the community support to planned area, and SBE method for visual quality assessment. About 44,4% of the area is classified as good because still covered by the natural type of peat, 16% has the highest level of ecotourism objects and attractions, and has the highest value of visual quality. The city community and city development plan also support to develop area to be ecotourism area. Ecotourism landscape plan for area is base on balancing between ecological and social aspects. There are three ecotourism zone plan proposed which are limited zone as limited use area, semi-intencsive zone as semi-intensive use area, and intensive zone as highly use area. Limited zone may be develop as a preservation or protection area, semi-intensive zone as conservation and rehabilitation area, and intensive zone as a natural recreation and buffer area. Activities and facilities on the area were planned to sustain the ecotourism area.
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Judul: Perencanaan lanskap kawasan ekowisata berbasis masyarakat (Community-Based Ecotourism) di Wilayah Pesisir Paloh Kalimantan Barat
Abstrak: District Paloh has a variety of coastal resources that potentially to be developed as ecotourism area. This study aims to plan this coastal landscape for community-based coastal ecotourism area. The research method used was a qualitative descriptive method to assess the potential of the ecotourism object and attraction, coastal suitability and the carrying capacity of the area. Assessing the potential objects and attractions utilized the modified method of Mc Kinnon (1986) and Gunn (1994), while assessing the suitability of ecotourism area used Bakosurtanal criteria (1996) and its carrying capacity used Boullion (1985) and WTO standards (1992). The study also assessing community participation used Participatory Rural Appraisal method (2006). The results of ecotourism objects and tourist attractions the assessment indicate that the coastal districts Paloh has six ecotourism objects and attractions (60%) with considerable potential category and four ecotourism objects and attractions (40%) with less potential category. Suitability analysis for coastal tourism categories have three class is highly suitable, moderately suitable, and marginally suitable, whereas for marine tourism categories there are three different classes of the class is moderately suitable, marginally suitable, and non suitable area. The assessment of the area shows that the attraction of tourists to the capacity of coastal tourism in total 305 visitors per trip or 1770 visitors per day and marine tourism as many as 55 visitors per visit for diving activity (330 total per day) and 218 visitors per visit (1308 total per day) for snorkeling activities in tourism object area. The ecotourism activities planned are tours of ecosystem observation, camping, boating, swimming, diving, snorkeling, fishing, and hunting photos, and facilities are tourist information center, restaurant, hotel, homestay, tower view, rest rooms and toilets, tourist interpretation boards, and souvenir center. To protect the coastal as touristic areas, so the government shoud have conservation rule and policy of the area. Community participation should be encouraged to give economic opportunity to local people.
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Judul: Infeksi Virus Parainfluenza Pada Anjing
Abstrak: Virus parainfluenza anjing termasuk famili Paramyxoviridae, berbentuk pleomorf dengan ukuran bervariasi (bergaris tengah antara 100-500 nm), berpembungkus peka ether, berisi genom RNA dan secara serologis mempunyai kesamaan dengan virus SV-5 kera; dikenak sebagai salah satu kausa penting dari sindrom "kennel cough". Infeksinya dapat mengenai anjing semua umur yang belum pernah terinfeksi atau mendapatkan vaksinasi mengakibatkan gejala klinis ringan yang terbatas pada traktus respirasi atu infeksi yang secara klinis tidak memperlihatkan gejala nyata. Gejala klinis yang nampak setelah masa inkubasi (1-5 hari) terlewati berupa batuk yang tidak berat selama beberapa hari, berbagai tingkat tonsilitis dan pharyngitis dan kadang-kadang ditemukan kenaikan temperatur rektal antara 1-2 derajat C dari temperatur normal rat-rata. Anjing terinfeksi mengandung virus pada traktus respirasi bagian atas dan bawah serta limfonoduli sampai hari ke 9 setelah infeksi. Penyebaran virus antar anjing terjadi secara aerogen.
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