Illegal logging is mowing down the tropical forests of the Southeast Asian country. Astoundingly, the estimated loss of 72 percent of its original frontier forest is raising concern among the environmentalists and conservationists.
The so claimed secured areas of the ‘treasure trove’ of plant and animal species is already hit hard by the loggers, whose power seems to be over that of the vigilance authorities. After all, money talks over matters!
The endangered orangutans along with the other species are facing the maximum burn from illegal logging, largely threatening the forests of Borneo, and also Aceh on the northernmost tip of Sumatra Island.
Greenpeace’s China office said China’s timber industry thrives completely on illegal felling of the merbau trees of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
These tree-logs are smuggled to China and processed as floorboards to meet the high-end furnishings’ demand from the United States, Canada, Australia and Europe, Greenpeace’s China office informs.
With Indonesia’s already losing vast amounts of its forest land to the increasing global demand for bio-fuels, environmentalists are concerned with the uncontrollable devastation, which they fear would lead to push the region’s bio-diversity to the point of no-return.
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