Abstract:
Mangrove forests as natural resources have potential value as natural tourism. This research
aims to analyze the potential of mangroves based on the ecological perspective of flora fauna and
socio-cultural to be a natural tourism area. The object of this research is the mangrove forest and its
resources. The research location was Angsana Village, Angsana District, Tanah Bumbu Regency,
South Kalimantan Province, Indonesia. The equipment used was a set of survey tools and
questionnaires. The flora and fauna characteristics of the mangrove forest were determined by the
species compositions analysis with a tabulation matrix method. The socio-cultural aspects were
analyzed descriptively. The potential of mangrove forests as natural tourism was analyzed using a
tabulation matrix and narrative descriptive. The composition of tree species as a whole consisted of 14
species. There were 19 species of birds, 6 species of mammals, and 7 species of fish found in the
mangrove forest area. The community strongly agree that mangroves can be used as a tourist area.
Angsana Village has mangrove vegetation around the river which has approximately 43.61 Ha in size
was naturally undisturbed and accessible by a road. The mangrove forest of the village of Angsana is
estimated about 200 meters far from Angsana Beach. Based on an analysis of the potential of
mangrove forests, this area has the potentials to be developed as natural tourism and even ecotourism.
Mangrove natural tourism area can be developed as additional tourism objects that are already running
from Angsana Beach tourist destinations
