Jurnal Nature Climate Change melaporkan bahwa Indonesia kehilangan 840ribu hektar hutan alami pada 2012, bahkan melebihi hilangnya area hutan di Brasil seluas 460 ribu hektar. Padahal area hutan yang dimiliki Brasil adalah seperempat luas hutan hujan Amazon. Menurut Greenpeace, kerusakan hutan ini disebabkan oleh dorongan kelapa sawit serta pulp dan kertas yang meningkatkan emisi gas rumah kaca. Satwa seperti harimau sumatra pun berada di kondisi nyaris punah, dan penduduk lokal terancam kehilangan sumber penghidupan.
PEKANBARU, SUMATRA, INDONESIA - JULY 11: Pemandangan hutan yang dibuka untuk lahan kelapa sawit di distrik Siak, 11 Juli 2014, di Riau, Indonesia.(Photo by Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images)
PEKANBARU, SUMATRA, INDONESIA - JULY 12: A view of palm oil plantation in Pelalawan district on July 12, 2014 in Riau province, Sumatra, Indonesia. The Nature Climate Change journal has reported that Indonesia lost 840,000 hectares of natural forest in 2012 compared to 460,000 hectares in Brazil despite their forest being a quarter of the size of the Amazon rainforest. According to Greenpeace, the destruction of forests is driven by the expansion...
PEKANBARU, SUMATRA, INDONESIA - JULY 12: Anas, seorang nelayan mengerikan ikan asin, di hutan hujan Kerumutan, habitat harimau sumatra di distrik Pelalawan, 12 Juli 2014, Riau. (Photo by Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images)
PEKANBARU, SUMATRA, INDONESIA - JULY 12: A illegal logger camp is seen inside a tropical rainforest at Kerumutan protected tropical rainforest, which is the Sumatran tiger habitat in Pelalawan district on July 12, 2014 in Riau province, Sumatra, Indonesia.
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