Kierstin Lilly
10/28/10
8:15PM
Indonesia has one of the world’s largest areas of remaining forest but is also one of the highest areas of deforestation rates. With a vast majority of the forest already gone from a decade’s “goldrush” of uncontrolled timber logging, palm oil and pulpwood plantations are using the rest. This is not only endangering the wildlife and people but the global climate change as well. Along many of the rivers, dead and dying trees stand bare where rainforest once flourished. Killing off these trees also allows a free flow of floodwaters to drown more trees, eroding the habitat and resources of local populations. The monsoon rains are not due for another month but with the radical deforestation, the West Kalimantan province in Indonesia has been flooded for three months in the time of the year that is supposed to be the area’s “dry” season.
Kalimantan has almost ten percent of the world’s tropical forest and a large biodiversity being the home of some of the world’s most endangered mammals. These mammals face extinction if the forest is completely destroyed. This article explains not only what is happening with the forest and the devastation it is bringing on the land but it also gives insight on the people and animals who inhabit the land. A sixty-year-old man, Saweng, states that, “the forest is important for everything for us, for tools, for house and for boat, for food and for medicine. The loss of the forest is making our lives more difficult.” Although I believe it is good for the reader to understand how the people who inhabit these areas feel, I do not agree with how many quotes this article has. I feel it would have been a more affective article if it were cut shorter.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/24/borneo-indonesia-rainforest-illegal-logging
13 comments:
This is very disturbing. I think it is horrible that all of these trees are being cut down, without concern of the animals. Although trees are what provides everything for us, the world as a whole needs to be more aware of this so that these animals no longer get displaced. I think it is necessary that we go behind the people cutting down the trees, and try to save some of the endangered animals.
I find this very disturbing as well. I agree that the world needs to be more aware of the resources its using and how quickly they are disappearing. What happens when we run out or the animals have no place to go? These are questions that seem to never cross the minds of the people destroying these forests. I guess the people will never learn until its too late and millions of animals become harmed or extinct.
I agree with Morgan that trees are being cut down without the knowledge of the habitats or food that the forest provides. This problems needs to be more evaluated because the trees to only be taken down if necessary. Displacing animals is what is causing a lot of animals to start becoming extinct and being killed off because they have no where to go.
I don't understand how people can simply cut rainforests down. They do so much for us, not to mention the fact that they are home to many animals. It does make you wonder if these people think about the concequences of their actions like what happens when there are no trees and we can barely breath?
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