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Around 90 percent of 13,000 hectares of natural forests cleared by activities from the pulpwood industry were found in Kalimantan, according to a new report issued by environmental groups, raising alarms of looming ecological crisis that may hit the island in the coming years.
One year into President Prabowo Subianto’s administration, environmental watchdogs warn of a deepening ecological crisis fueled by elite business interests and an expanding military role in natural resource management.
Hanif explained that along the watersheds of Bali’s three major rivers, Tukad Badung, Tukad Mati and Tukad Singapadu, only 3 percent of the 49,500 hectares of designated buffer zones are covered by trees.
Forests nearly the size of Ireland were lost in 2023, with 6.37 million hectares of trees felled and burned, "significantly exceeded" levels that would have kept the world on track to eliminate deforestation by the end of the decade.
Shrinking forest cover over the last 30 years presents a clear and present danger to biodiversity, a recent review of the state of the world’s forests has found, even though the rate of deforestation has slowed in the past five years.
