The Battle to Save Indonesia's Disappearing Forests

Krystof Obidzinski, CIFOR scientist gives his comment on South-east Asia deforestation rate over the past 20 years. "By the late 1990s, an estimated three million hectares of forest land were being cleared each year, said Dr Krystof Obidzinski at the Centre for International Forestry Research. Decentralised approval of land permits and rampant corruption made it harder to stop runaway forest destruction. Also, large- scale clearing by fire, with its resulting haze, added to the environmental damage."

The story also appear in Jakarta Globe with title "The Battle to Save Indonesia's Disappearing Forests", reprinted courtesy of Straits Times Indonesia