Save Our Forest

Save Our Forest

Rate severest of Indonesia Forest Damage In World

Greenpeace started a campaign-saving south east asia heavenly forest in the province of Papua, as well as launching a program ekoforestri choice is based forest management of the peoples. campaigne marked the coming of ships belonging to Greenpeace, Rainbow Warrior, in the port of Jayapura.

Before entering the waters of Indonesia, Rainbow warrior mark-saving initiatives heavenly forest (Forest paradise) by establishing the Global Forest Rescue Station (GFRS) in the area of Lake Murray, Western province, Papua New guinea. There, the Greenpeace volunteers from various countries to help local residents create a boundary of land that is not a push by timber companies.

According to the interpreter campaign Greenpeace Southeast Asia forest, Hapsoro, Rainbow Warrior coming the first time in Papua is part of the global saving campaign last natural forest land, which is known as the heavenly forest.
"in the area of Southeast Asia, Indonesia has the largest forest area. Indonesia is part of the forest in Papua. Therefore, in this forest penyelamtan from Papua," said Hapsoro.

Executive Director of Greenpeace south east asia, Emmy Hafild added that heavenly forest forest in the Asia Pacific were damaged in the appeal than any place on earth. While forests are very rich in biological diversity which is unimaginable. Has not been recently scientists from Conservation Internatinal (CI) to find "heavenly garden" - a region that never touchable by human hands and full of new species - in the Foja mountains, Papua. These findings emphasize the importance of saving natural forests in Papua, before any damage that the more severe types of flora and fauna that have not in the find.

Severest In the world

Defortration of rate in Indonesia is one of the severest in the world, with at least 1.9 million hectares of forest each year in damaged during the last five years, or equivalent with a six-field soccer per minute. at this time Indonesia has lost more than 72% of forest area intact, and 40% of forests have been destroyed utterly. most of the logging in Indonesia illegally, and according to Minister of Forestry MS Kaban, causing losses of as much as 4 billion U.S. dollars every year.
"Forest-Forest Asia Pacific heavenly severe damage due to the demand of wood from Europe, the United States, Japan and China," said Emmy. Associated with the Green Peace urge the government of the countries-producers such as Indonesia - and the consumer countries in order to put strict rules in order against the illegal and destructive logging.

"It should be in the form of a protected area network in the entire world followed law enforcement and effective management," said Hapsoro. "Only through regional and international cooperation, we can defend the original natural forest for the last generations to come," he added.