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activities. These include protecting and rehabilitating coral reefs, preventing coastal erosion, cleaning beaches,
educating and raising awareness, managing and recycling waste, providing health clinics for animals, as well as
coral reef research (Marbun, 2015).
In 2004, the part-time coordinator at Gili-Eco Trust imported Biorock technology. This technology found by Wolf
Hilzberg and Tom Goreau has been applied in several places including in Pemuteran, Buleleng, northern Bali. To
date, there are about 140 dots around Gili-Matra that have used technology to protect and rehabilitate the coral
reefs. The many points that use this Biorock technology to be Gili-Matra as the location with the largest Biorock
point in the world. Since 2006, they have also held biorock workshops every two years. Their eighth workshop in
November 2012 was attended by about 100 participants from various countries. They learned how to restore the
coral reefs, which offer sustainable tourism concepts, including protecting coral reefs and fish. Since last year,
they have also expanded its programs including managing and recycling garbage on the island. Their main
activities mainly recycle and add value to new products from waste. They work with the Environmental Care
Community Front who collects garbage from every hotel, restaurant, cafe, or resident's home and takes it to the
final dump (Marbun, 2015; Rizky, 2016).
The Gili-Eco Trust office in the central part of the island became a kind of workshop and showroom how the
agency recycles the waste. Their big project is to make the house more visible as a store. They also established
Sea made, an effort to make recyclable products from trash on the island. Souvenirs such as necklaces, bracelets,
ashtrays, and ornamental lampshades fill the shelves in their offices. Everything is made from garbage. The eye of
a dolphin-shaped necklace, for example, is made of battered bottle shard. So it is with the ring.
Another recycling effort they have done is to create an eco-brick, a glass brick. The garbage is shredded into the
sand and formed into a brick. The location of this glazed fabric is near a garbage dump. In a day they produce
about 3,500 bricks. The result is then used for constructing materials such as ordinary bricks. For environmental
campaign programs, they also introduce Eco-Diver, divers are concerned about the environment. Not only must it
preserve the environment while diving, Eco Divers also learn to identify and identify coral reefs, create coral reefs,
rehabilitate and collect coral damage data. Similar campaigns were also conducted for schoolchildren as well as
local residents. Through its various programs, they continue to invite people and tourists to care and help save the
environment in Gili-Matra.
In terms of turtle conservation, foreign tourists bask in the white sand of the island's three largest islands on the
western side of the island of Lombok. Local tourists busy bathing on the beach, taking pictures of themselves, or
just walking or cycling. Some tourists passing the east coast of the island stop at the turtle breeding ground. The
location of this farm is on the beach. Therefore, tourists easily recognize the place. The turtle breeding center is an
open house with thatched roof. In the building area of about 20 x 15 square meters there are three glass-walled
pools. The three hatching ponds are kept from freshly hatched until they are ready to be released into the open
seas. This effort is to keep the turtle population on the island (Muhajir, 2017).
Turtle breeding center on the island started from the initiative of the former head of the hamlet. He sees more
turtle loss in the three islands. He then made a turtle breeding place by buying turtle eggs from fishermen and then
hatching. Originally the breeding place on the beach open. However, the Garuda Indonesia airlines then help build
the hall as it is today. Management of breeding center carried out independently. Many other residents who helped
turtle conservation efforts. They together feed, clean the pool, and keep the breeding hall. Until the late 1990s,
many turtles lay their eggs in the island. However, due to the massive development of tourism as well as fishing
by fishermen, the turtles on the island are decreasing.
The turtle egg is then worn sand for about 40 days. This hatchery is in a special building with a sand floor. Ash
shows his egg battered. Some have been peeled off, hatchlings have hatched. Within a month, they incubated
about 350 turtle eggs. The two most common types are green turtles (
Chelonia Midas
) and Hawksbill turtles
(
Eretmochelys Imbricata
). From egg hatcheries, poultry children are brought to processing ponds. For 6-8 months,
