A research on local wisdom in the nature preservation of Baumata has been conducted from
February to March 2014. It held in the Village of East Baumata, Taebenu Sub district, Kupang
regency, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) in order to know what is the local wisdom owned by
Baumata villages in the preservation of nature and environment around them. The method used
in this research is descriptive qualitative. The data is taken by interviews and direct observation.
Researchers explore the village of East Baumata to observe and conduct the interviews with
community consisting of the village, traditional leaders, healers (shaman) and ordinary people.
The results obtained from this study is clearly wisdom view of local communities Baumata in the
preservation of nature, namely the presence of fine custom ('adat sanctions') related actions that
damage the environment. Besides that all the families which surveyed, were seen planting and
maintaining plants for food, medicine and ornamental plants in the yard. One other interesting
thing is all the families surveyed had livestock in the household and their concepts and apply the
principles of the triangle of life "mansian - muit - nasi, na bua" which means humans, livestock,
and forests is an integral and mutual dependency
