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A Future Without Forests? - Summary
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Indonesia's 100 million hectares of forests
represent 10% of the world's remaining
tropical forest cover.
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Today over 70% of Indonesia's original
"frontier" forest (displaying original
ecological features) has been lost.
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Indonesia currently loses around one million hectares of forest each year - around 1% of its remaining forests.
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Indonesia is home to 10% of plant, 12% of mammal, 16% of reptile and 17% of bird species.
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Indonesia has the world's longest list of species threatened with extinction, including the Sumatran tiger, Asian elephant, Sumatran and Javan rhino, clouded leopard, sunbear and orangutan.
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Destruction of forest habitat resulting from unsustainable logging, illegal logging, land conversion for industrial plantations, fires, mining activity, poaching and wildlife trade are driving species' declines.
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Enforcement of legislation to protect national parks and other protected forest areas is woefully inadequate.
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