The rate of rainforest deforestation in Indonesia now exceeds that of Brazil, dpa quoted a new study as showing.
According to a report published Sunday in British science journal
Nature Climate Change, the total area lost to deforestation in
Indonesia increases by almost 50,000 hectares on average every year,
while tree clearing in Brazil has actually slowed.
A May 2011 moratorium on logging contracts in a 65-million-hectare
forest area has also been unsuccessful, writes scientist Belinda
Margono in the report.
Deforestation destroyed more than six million hectares of Indonesian
forest - an area the size of Croatia - from 2000 to 2012.
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