Peningkatan Pengetahuan dan Keterampilan Kelompok Konservasi Laskar Mandiri dalam Pembibitan dan Penanaman Bibit Mangrove di Desa Kayu Ara Permai Kab. Siak

Mangrove forest is one of the coastal ecosystems that has many roles, but is currently experiencing a lot of damage. Efforts to improve conditions have been made through replanting. This activity requires mangrove seeds. The purpose of this community service is to increase the knowledge and skills of the community, especially members of the Laskar Mandiri conservation group in seeding and planting mangrove seeds for the needs of rehabilitating damaged mangrove forests in Kayu Ara Permai Village, Sungai Apit District. The methods used in carrying out this community service activity are lectures, questions and answers, demonstrations and  practices about all series of nurseries and planting mangrove seedlings by directly involving all the service teams including UNRI's Kukerta students in 2020. To find out the participants' understanding of the material presented, this was done. evaluation by asking participants to fill out a questionnaire before and after the activity was carried out. The data obtained were analyzed descriptively. The results of this outreach activity indicated that the participants followed seriously listening to the material presented by the extension team from start to finish. The results of the evaluation showed that 75% of participants prior to the counseling knew that the role of mangrove forests had increased to 100%, before extension there were still around 10% of participants who did not know the characteristics of seeds or ripe fruit, which became 100% after counseling. Before the activity, only 80% of the participants knew that it was necessary to choose fruit that was free from pests to be 100%. Before the training there were about 30% of participants who did not know the impact if the seedlings broke their roots during planting, so 95% knew about the impact. Previously, there were still participants who did not know (10%) of the impact of planting during the big waves to become 100 aware. All participants (100%) at the end of the service activity admitted that the service was useful because there were still important things that we did not understand