Deforestation is causing a fall in population in all types of animas faster than ever before
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Deforestation of the Bornean
rainforests is getting out of hand
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The main culprit
behind the mass
deforestation is
palm oil production.
As you can see,
it is happening at
an alarming rate.
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Palm oil production
has skyrocketed
from 5000 and
8000 million metric
tons in Indonesia
and Malaysia
respectively to over
17000 and
20000 in 2008.
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But...
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But... how is palm oil
linked to deforestation?
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People cut down large
areas of rainforest to
grow exclusively palm
oil trees which can
harm the biodiversity
of the area.
Palm oil is resposible
for 5.54% of the
world's deforestation
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/
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of carbon emissions from deforestation
in the world is from Indonesia
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3
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1
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277
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million m² of forest was lost in Indonesia
from 2002 to 2020
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80%
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of logging in Indonesia is reported to
be done illegally