After the mining activity is over, the land at the location will become open, BRIN's Plant and Botanical Garden Research Center Head Sukma Surya Kusumah told ANTARA here on Wednesday.
Then, BRIN will rehabilitate and restore the open land by planting plants that originally grew at the site, he informed.
Mining has to be followed by sustainable utilization efforts, namely reviving the forest ecosystem, Kusumah said.
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Mining sites are usually located in forested areas. When a mining company mines at a location, the land is cleared to bring in equipment to the site following which mining begins, he explained.
When any land is cleared, trees are cut down. Under the latest cooperation, before trees are felled at the mining site of PT Nusa Persada Resources, a plants conservation team from BRIN, along with the company’s officials, will visit the location and list the plants growing there.
The BRIN team will also take saplings growing naturally in the forest area to carry out ex situ conservation in botanical gardens.
Through ex situ conservation, trees or plants within the mining site will be saved.
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After that, once the mining activity is completed, the open land will be planted with the original plants to restore the environmental condition back to normal.
One of the methods to propagate plants that the team will carry out is the in vitro method.
This means that the team will utilize a small part of the plant -- leaves, shoots, stems, roots, callus, cells -- to produce a new plant.
The “seeds” will then be cultivated within a botanical garden. Then, they will be returned to where they originally came from, namely the mining site of PT Nusa Persada Resources.
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