tens of millions of hectares still face Axe
Vast rain forests of Indonesia, continues to disappear at an alarming rate, in the name of development and progress.
Last year, with much pressure from people and the campaign organised by greenpeace, food giant Nestle was stopped from accepting raw materials in its supply chain process, which leads to heavy deforestation.Earlier huge swamps, with peat, were being cleared, which would release a large amount of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere.These areas designated High Carbon Storage (HCS), peatlands and areas of High Conservation Value - including areas vital to local livelihoods and animal habitat.
But the new moratorium , does not do much to protect the natural habitats of the Oran-gutan and the sumatran tiger, as it allows many paper pulp companies to continue pulping millions of tonnes , of Indonesian rainforest , areas of high carbon storage and peatlands, which store enormous quantities of climate changing carbon.
According to Greenpeace, about 40 million hectares of forest could still be destroyed under the moratorium.It doesnot act far enough , and millions of hectares can still be cleared.
Only new concessions to clear forest will be suspended; the millions of hectares of forest already slated for destruction continue to be under threat;
Vast rain forests of Indonesia, continues to disappear at an alarming rate, in the name of development and progress.
Last year, with much pressure from people and the campaign organised by greenpeace, food giant Nestle was stopped from accepting raw materials in its supply chain process, which leads to heavy deforestation.Earlier huge swamps, with peat, were being cleared, which would release a large amount of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere.These areas designated High Carbon Storage (HCS), peatlands and areas of High Conservation Value - including areas vital to local livelihoods and animal habitat.
But the new moratorium , does not do much to protect the natural habitats of the Oran-gutan and the sumatran tiger, as it allows many paper pulp companies to continue pulping millions of tonnes , of Indonesian rainforest , areas of high carbon storage and peatlands, which store enormous quantities of climate changing carbon.
According to Greenpeace, about 40 million hectares of forest could still be destroyed under the moratorium.It doesnot act far enough , and millions of hectares can still be cleared.
Only new concessions to clear forest will be suspended; the millions of hectares of forest already slated for destruction continue to be under threat;
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