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Is Bali Overexploited?
09/07/2010
Many people will agree, yes it is over exploited. Definitely and much worse, it is badly overexploited. And that are shown upon the data that was gathered, below:
Domestic tourists has emerged as the highest of it all, the figure has doubled the number of the island's population twice as it may seems. Last year Bali had at least 5.75 million foreign and domestic tourists, which had covered or doubled from the 3.9 million population of Bali. The environmental capacity is just about 1.5 million.
Numbers of this inhabitants are from Java, Lombok and other parts of Indonesia out of the 3.9 million inhabitants. And it is still rapidly increasing these past few years and currently the figure rose up to 400, 000, which makes the indigenous population complete the statistics about 89.7 percent.
Aside from that, the effects of tourism have come also in bad light with its continuous effects on the environment. Bali's 48 Beaches have gone through acute erosion that you will see that the coastlines has lost around 181.7km of land in the last decade, and that amounts to 41.5 percent of the Island's shoreline. Also the temperature in Bali rose from around 28 to 30 degrees Celsius to 33, and this is caused mostly by increasing population.
Hotel owners should take into account the fast growing competition, the increasing number of villa complexes has gone all the way up to 78,000 while the optimum number is just about 22,000, according to the survey that was commissioned by the government.
Illegal loggings are also making a big effects on endangering the island's national parks. Bali had lost around 25,000 hectares of its forest, indicated a drastic reduction of one fifth of its forest reserves in just 20 year period. The island's pride, the Bali tiger (panthera tigris balica) is now long extinct and will soon be followed by its rare bird, the Bali starling (Leucopsar rothschildi) of which only a few dozen currently remain.
Even the lack of water has a bigger impact on the overexploitation of Bali. There is always a calamity that strikes Bali, and that lies in the government both central and provincial levels. There is a need for a rapid solution to save Bali's ecology and environment and still increase the number of tourist for the goodness of economy. Developing other promising lands and tourist sites such as old or ancient places will help save it and also rehabilitating the wholeness of what Bali has to offer in their different programs. Choosing the places that has quick-win tourist sites that needed little renovations are a good choice to go. Examples of these are the Borrobudur, Bunaken, and Toraja, these are world-class places that only needs to have a new styling and rehabilitation. The right type of visitors will admire the land's culture and create a spiraling upward effect of similar tourists coming, provoking more admiration for the local heritage.
It is high time that such a move be made by the government to foster more tourist attractions nationwide and save the biocultural heritage of Bali, which is on the brink of losing its self-identity
Source : http://www.asianewsnet.net/home/news.php?id=14062&%3Bsec=3
