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Reinhard Kuchenbäcker Premium MemberThe company name is only visible to registered members.World fears for Indonesia's forests
Hi all,
We all know about the deforestation problem in Indonesia. I found an article with some backgrounds on that, e.g. organizational ones.
Best regards,
Reinhard Kuchenbäcker
See full article at
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c9793576-a141-11dc-9f34-0000779fd2...
... About 80 per cent is being done illegally, according to the United Nations. Conservation International, which conducts satellite research, says that 4 per cent of Indonesia's conservation land is being encroached upon every year.
... Attempts to clamp down on illegal logging do appear to be succeeding. Almost half the country's plywood companies have had to close in the past two years as a result of a raw materials shortage, ...
As a result, far fewer shipments of illegal Indonesian logs are arriving in foreign ports, ...
The crackdowns could be much better targeted, however, according to Frances Seymour, the head of the Indonesia-based Centre for International Forestry Research. "[They] tend to be focused on the little guy with the chainsaw and not the big guy with the bank account, so we need to be cautious about high profile crackdowns."
Such poorly directed efforts point to the biggest problem hampering improvements in Indonesia's long-term sustainable forest management. "We need to improve forest governance in the government, business and the community sectors," says Wahjudi Wardojo, a deputy forestry minister.
"None of them are working well. The government has to be much better organised. The limits of authority are not yet clear, so responsibility, accountability and liability are hard to monitor and enforce. Some of our laws are also overlapping which causes confusion." ...
By John Aglionby
Published: December 3 2007 02:00 | Last updated: December 3 2007 02:00
Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2007
- 03 Dec 2007, 09:00 am
