The farce and corruption threatening Indonesia's rain forest...
At a mine-site near Sangatta in East Kalimantan, a titanic crater yawns out of the ground, its nadir filled with brown slurry.
Looking across the hinterland from its southern ridge, a dust-scape stretches off towards the horizon, braided by dirt tracks and the giant dump trucks that traverse them. The distant drone of their two-storey engines fills the air. Ten minutes down the road lies another pit, and another.
It is easy to forget you are in Indonesian Borneo.
Since 1950 more than half of its ancient jungle has been felled. What remains is a patchwork of second growth and degraded forest-land, palm plantations and open-cast coal mines. WWF predicts less than 30% will stand by 2020, with practically all of its most bio-diverse dipterocarp forests destroyed.
Due to its land use, Indonesia is the world's third largest emitter of greenhouse gases with 85 percent of its emissions resulting from deforestation and peat-land oxidation, a process that releases CO2. More...
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At a mine-site near Sangatta in East Kalimantan, a titanic crater yawns out of the ground, its nadir filled with brown slurry.
Looking across the hinterland from its southern ridge, a dust-scape stretches off towards the horizon, braided by dirt tracks and the giant dump trucks that traverse them. The distant drone of their two-storey engines fills the air. Ten minutes down the road lies another pit, and another.
It is easy to forget you are in Indonesian Borneo.
Since 1950 more than half of its ancient jungle has been felled. What remains is a patchwork of second growth and degraded forest-land, palm plantations and open-cast coal mines. WWF predicts less than 30% will stand by 2020, with practically all of its most bio-diverse dipterocarp forests destroyed.
Due to its land use, Indonesia is the world's third largest emitter of greenhouse gases with 85 percent of its emissions resulting from deforestation and peat-land oxidation, a process that releases CO2. More...
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