Deforestation Of Sundaland

A Human Impact on the Environment

SundalandEnvironmental Hotspot

“The Sundaland hotspot covers the western half of the Indo-Malayan archipelago, counting of some 17,000

islands lying north and south of the equator. The hotspot has its extension over Borneo (725,000 km²) and Sumatra (427,300 km²), third and sixth largest

islands in the world, and over the Malay Peninsula and the island of Java (126 700 km2). Also, the area of

Sundaland covers a part of southern Thailand provinces of Pattani, Yala, and Narathiwat)”

Size of Sunderland

• Original Extent: 1,501,063 km2

• Forest Remaining:700,000 km2

• Vegetation Remaining: 100,571 km2

The Consequences The Results of human’s action

Areas Affected

• Kalimantan's protected lowland forests declined by 56% between 1985 and 2001

• Less than 33% of lowland forest and peat swamp remains around Borneo

Effects on Land

• Exposes the forest floor to drying making it possible for forest fires to start

(Unrelated) fires are started purposely in order to convert oil palm plantation

• Trees not adapted to fires, therefore slow to regenerate

Effects on Biodiversity

• Animals and plants loses their niche

• Thus reduce in numbers or die out.

Causes

Deforestation in Indonesia

Economic

• Growing paper industry

• Growing timber industry

• Boosting Economy– Allow logging, transport timber– Allow land conversion

Politics

• Allows land conversion– Economic boost– Gain supports from the locals

• Allows logging– Logging industry support government– Gain from export

Illegal Logging

• Imbalance demands and supplies– Growing industries, more demands

• No definite reaction to prevent– No policies or acts that is devoted

enough

• Wasted lands– Cleared and put to no use

Conflicts

• Political turmoil

• Banning logging– Huge lose in exports

• Banning land conversion– Disregards, lose of supports

Negative Effects of Deforestation on Human

Economic Effects

• Deforestation for lands and pasturelands.

• Taxes on Lands are high.• High Chances that lands from

deforestation gives deficit to humans.

Global Markets

• Countries with rainforests make their money from experts such as nuts, lumber.

• If deforestation continues in same pace for 20 more years, there would be a huge famine.

Medical Issues

• Humans doesn’t realize there could be plants that can produce cure for illness.

• Through deforestation, unknown plants, which might have possible cure for illnesses die out.

War

• People without jobs tend to move to forests near country borders and bring the trees down for lands.

• As soon as people cross borders, countries engage in war.

ResolutionOur Resolve on the subject

RESOLUTION

• Make recycling paper an official policy, less trees for paper industries

• World Bank enforcement, enforce saving environment, made conditions for loans

• Shift industries, support more ecotourism than timber, slow process expect results in long run

• Reorganize the government, reduce corruption, benefit people and nature at the same time– Government support biology researches

Resources

• http://www.biodiversityhotspots.org/xp/hotspots/sundaland/Pages/default.aspx

• http://www.eoearth.org/article/Biological_diversity_in_Sundaland

• http://www.conservation.org/explore/asia-pacific/indonesia/Pages/overview.aspx

• http://www.biodiversityscience.org/publications/hotspots/Sundaland.html

• http://www.arbec.com.my/• http://ran.org/the_problem_with_palm_oil/• http://www.wcs.org/globalconservation/Asia?

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