Forest For Us

Indonesia’s forests represent 10% of the world’s remaining tropical rainforests.  By 2001 Indonesia had lost 99 million acres of forest during the previous 32 years, which is equivalent to the combined size of Germany and the Netherlands. The current rate of forest loss is accelerating.

Indonesia is one of the five most species-diverse countries in the world, home to 12% of all mammal species, 16% of all reptile and amphibian species, and 17% of all bird species. It also contains 33% of insect species, 24% of fungi species, and 10% of higher plant species. Tanjung Puting National Park (TPNP), site of Camp Leakey, is home to more than 230 bird species, at least 17 reptile species, and 29 mammal species.

After Malaysia and the United States, Indonesia has the third highest number of threatened species with 772 species. However, Indonesia has the absolute highest number of threatened mammal species with 147 species – an increase of seven species since the year 2000. According to a recent article in the conservation journal Oryx, 1000 orangutans are lost in Sumatra each year; in Borneo, the number is probably even higher.

See more at: http://www.orangutan.org/rainforest/indonesian-forest-facts#sthash.MBpUV5bi.dpuf

Illegal loggers working in the forest in Lamandau

Stop doing Illegal logging in Indonesian Forests!!! They could destroy the forest!

An area of a rainforest the size of a football field is being destroyed each second.

The forests of Central Africa are home to more than 8,000 different species of plants.

More than 5,000 things are made from trees such as houses, furniture, pencils, utensils, fences, books, newspaper, movie tickets, even clothing and toothpaste.

The single oldest living thing on earth is a tree, its is 4,700 years old and is located in the US. It was growing when the Egyptians built the pyramids.

Most rainforests are cleared for their timber value and then are followed by farming and ranching operations.

In less than one hundred years over half of the forest has now been cut and burned, leaving whole areas of the earth bare and unprotected, rendering entire regions lifeless.

In less than one hundred years over half of the forest has now been cut and burned, leaving whole areas of the earth bare and unprotected, rendering entire regions lifeless. Over fifty million acres of tropical rain forest are destroyed every year, enough trees to fill all of England andScotland combined.

In what has been described as "the worst fire ever in the Brazilian Amazon,"a 250-mile-long line of fire destroyed about 15 percent of the Roraima State's savanna and forest before rains slowed the fires Covering an area the size of Belgium, the fires devastated about two thirds of the plants, animals and other biodiversity in the burned region.

Over 300,000 acres of forest has burned in Indonesia's East Kalimantan, and over 5,000 people are suffering from smog-related diseases.

While most of Malaysia is relatively clear of haze, certain parts, such as Siri in Sarawak, has been suffering from pollution indexes of above 500, which is considered hazardous to human health.

Last year's haze cost the people of Southeast Asia $1.4 billion, mostly in short- term health costs, according to a study conducted by the Indonesia Program of WWF and the Singapore-based Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia (EEPSEA). Another study is currently underway to determine the long-term costs to human health and wildlife.

Fires are also destroying forests and wildlife in Vietnam, Thailand,Mongolia, Russia, Australia, Rwanda and several other countries.                                                           

Have you seen the differences? Isn't ironic?

I find this video on youtube. This video is about orang utan being abused by many people. Many orang utan is died because of the activity of human.

So, Stop abusing orang utan and try to save them :)) 

Save Orang Utan