Indonesia now holds the dubious title of the nation with the highest deforestation rate of primary-forest lands, beating out Brazil, which has been the historical leader. This has great significance for Indonesia's greenhouse-gas emissions, since huge stores of planet-warming carbon and methane are contained in tropical forests, as well as biodiversity, given the high concentration of rare and endangered species living there.
The Indonesia government declared a moratorium on deforestation in May 2011, but a new study shows that it has had little effect so far. The study, which was published Sunday in the journal Nature Climate Change, found that the year with the greatest losses was 2012, after the moratorium was declared. Between 2000 to 2012, the loss of Indonesian primary-forest lands totaled more than 6.02 million hectares per year Read more...
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