Indonesia’s moratorium on clearing forests and peatlands now permanent – but excludes vast areas
Indonesian President Joko Widodo has made permanent the country’s moratorium on clearing primary forests and peatlands
Tag: sebangau-national-park
Forests Week: Genuine forest reform can only happen under the gaze of independent eyes
Looking back into a past of chaos, corruption and crime, Indonesia has clearly come a long way in reforming its timber sector. During the 1990s and early 2000s, illegal logging was so widespread that more than 70-80 per cent of timber produced in Indonesia was sourced illegally
Forest and peatland burning changes Sebangau National Park to oil palm plantations
The latest report from the Independent Forest Monitoring Network in Indonesia (JPIK) – The Loss of Our Forest and Peatland – reveals systematic and extensive encroachment, as well as illegal logging, within Sebangau National Park that reaches far into the park’s rehabilitation zone and wilderness zone
The Loss of Our Forest and Peatland
Our latest joint report with the Independent Forest Monitoring Network in Indonesia (aka JPIK) reveals systematic and extensive encroachment into forests as well as illegal logging in Sebangau National Park
National park with largest orangutan population being cleared for palm oil and illegally logged
Sebangau National Park in Indonesia – home to more than 5,800 critically endangered Bornean orangutans and the biggest protected peatland in Central Kalimantan – is suffering encroachment which is destroying its forest and peatland