WORLD RAINFOREST DAY š
Indonesiaās rainforests, once spanning over 93.8 million hectares, are rapidly disappearing, with 26.6 million hectares of forest cover lost from 2001 to 2023, including 9.75 million hectares of irreplaceable tropical #rainforest. Last year, 261,575 hectares were deforestedāa 27% spike from 2023, driven by palm oil 32,406 heactares, pulpwood, and emerging threats like nickel mining alone clearing 721,000 hectares, including 150,000 hectares primarily forest and bioenergy plantations.
Corrupt and inconsistent laws exacerbate the crisis. While a 2019 moratorium on new forest-clearing permits curbed losses to a low of 115,459 ha in 2020, 97% of 2024ās #deforestation occurred within legal concessions, exposing weak enforcement.
Legal loopholes allow pulp mills, illegal mining, nickel mining pollutes rivers and seas, increases flooding and destroys habitats for millions biodiversity, endemic and primata species.