THE SUSTAINABILITY OF EGRETS CONSERVATION TOURISMN VILLAGE IN SLEMAN REGENCY

Abstract

The development of the rural environment, one of which is in the egret conservation tourism village, which is located in Ketingan Hamlet, Tirtoadi Village, Mlati District, Sleman Regency continues to experience pressure. The threats to the habitat of the egret as a migratory animal that settles in this hamlet are caused by the internal and the external factors. In doing so, if there are no measures to control or prevent the pressure on its habitat, it will have an impact on increasingly pressing habitat and disruption of the egret colony which only breeds in Ketingan Hamlet during the rainy season. The purpose of this study is to explain what forms of pressure occur and threaten the sustainability of the egret habitat, and to find out the government’s and local communitie’s roles in efforts to protect the egret habitat ecosystem. Through the use of observation and in-depth interviews method, this study was carried out by a phenomenological approach which tried to display the symptoms of the field. This study is able to explain several facts in the field which are related to the occurrences of pressure on ecosystems which disrupt the sustainability of the egret's habitat. These pressures include the rampant logging of trees in the hamlet, the invasion of housing in Ketingan complex and also the construction of buildings and residents' houses have made many vegetation as egrets’ habitat had destroyed. Keywords: community participation, egret conservation, the government and local community role, phenomenological