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2.8.3 Fataluku Forests Tenure
Andrew McWilliams, Australian Anthropology Senior Researcher was carried out a study on the Fataluku Forests Tenure in the Proposed Nino Konis
Santana National Park. A long ignored and subsumed within government regulations, customary tenures and local claims of Fataluku-speaking populations
to the forestry zone remain substantially intact. The present of national park status in this region should foster the traditional owner right. However, since Portuguese
period there is no legal document such map to describe the ownership even amount community they know their boundary of land claim in the field.
A detail GIS based survey in future is highly needed to mapping the traditional claim in the national park areas. During field work, were carried out a
geo-positioning on land boundary amount community claim related to forests tenure in Fataluku customary. A coarse map has produced and divided the
national park into seven zones.
2.9 The declaration of Nino Konis Santana National Park
Ecologically, there are five important biodiversity areas that combined in the national park status. They are such i Lore Reserve Forests, ii Mount Paichao
Range, iii Lake Iralalaro, iv Jaco Island and vTutuala Beach and Adjacent Forest.
Lore Reserve Forest was gazette as a Forest Reserve by the Portuguese Government in 1967, and proposed by FAOUNDP in 1982 as Wildlife
Sanctuary, according to Trainor et.al 2007. Mount Paitchao and Lake Iralalaro sites was proposed as a Wildlife Sanctuary by FAOUNDP 1982 with a
suggestion that these sites might be combined with Lore and Jaco Island and considered for National Park status. The combination of these sites was gazette as
a Nature Reserve SK Menhut No. 672Kpts-II1996 according to Ora, 2000 in Trainor et al. 2007. In 2000 when the country under United Nations Transition
Administration, these areas was recognized by UNTAET as protected Wild Area under Regulation Number 200019 which by later, on 1
st
August 2008 has just been declared by the Government of Timor-Leste as Nino Konis Santana National
Park under Government Regulation Number 82007.
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III. METHODOLOGY OF RESEARCH
3.1 Time and Location
Research was conducted between March and October 2010. It consists of process develop method, analysis and reporting. Laboratory work was accomplish
at MIT IPB Research Laboratory, while field works such gathering additional updated data related to method developed took place at Nino Konis Santana
National Park, Timor-Leste.
Figure 1 Map area of study
Administratively, NKSNP is located at Lautem District, the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste. It’s covered six villages’ areas, such Com, Bauro,
Mehara, Tutuala, Muapitine and Lore I. It’s lied at coordinates -8
o
16’ 48” to – 8
o
43’ 48” S and 126
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55’ 12” to 127
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23’ 24” E. The total area is 1,231.34 km
2
, divided into terrestrial part 677 km
2
and marine part 554 km
2
.
3.2 Data and Tools
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