Save Indonesia forest
Never has the threat to the world's forests been more acute nor the risk of dangerous climate change so imminent. With up to one-fifth of the world's greenhouse gas emissions being caused by forest destruction, these problems are intimately linked.
Forests there are being destroyed faster than any other major forested country, for logging and to make space for yet more oil palm plantations.
The massive amounts of greenhouse gases being released by deforestation and forest fires make Indonesia the country with the world's third-largest greenhouse gas emissions. We should take our concern about this. If we don't take any action, large number of O2 will be disappear in the next few years.
In Indonesia, large forest fires periodically occur with an interval of 3 to 5 years, due to an unusually long dry season. It is well known that in 1982 and 1983 in East Kalimantan the fire-damaged forest area amounted to 3.5 million hectares. Smoke from forest fires in 1991 and 1994 caused disturbance of air and marine traffic in neighboring countries. Forest fire and smoke control must be the target of highest priority for the Government of Indonesia right now in the next 2008.
This is the endgame for Indonesia's precious biodiversity. As Indonesian (I am) and as the world citizen, we must act quickly if we want to save Indonesia forests.
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