Indonesia is facing a problem of deforestation in its tropical rainforests. The deforestation has been a result of developed countries multinational corporation need for wood, along with the Indonesian government lack of vigilance in an attempt to maintain some protection for its own rainforest. As a result, 40% of the Indonesian rainforest has been deforested. As the logging continues, a great area of biodiversity is lost and the orang-utan is the one animal in the rainforest that suffer the most from the deforestation.
While deforestation occurs, the orang-utan population decreases. The habitat destruction is occurring due to legal and illegal logging operations in order to clear land for agriculture purposes, and the logging is destroying the primate’s main food sources which are fruit trees. Thus, to reduce the destruction of the orang-utans habitat, Indonesia government should immediately stop the Indonesian resettlement program that is overcrowding its outer islands and to vast tracts of deforestation for agricultural purposes or build rehabilitation centre in Indonesia for orang-utans that have lost their habitat and have suffered from malnutrition, caused by being poached and sold as pets on the black market.
Another hazards form deforestation that the orang-utans face is the building of the roads for the low –land harvesting of timber. Not only does the road construction hasten the erosion processes that will take place within the orang-utan habitat, but they also effectively isolate orang-utan individuals from one another, leaving the primates with no migratory corridors with where to travel to search a mate. Hence, to save orang-utans, we should restore the connection between separated populations of orang-utans with the destruction and replanting of commercial logging roads or do not permit as many new roads to be built within the rainforest.
In conclusion, to help orang-utans, the habitat protection should be the highest priority. The Indonesian Government should increased permanent protection forest against any type of encroachment upon the land for either agricultural purposes, or for the purposes of poaching endangered species.
2 comments:
As always, Jen, it is a pleasure to read your posts thanks to the way you intelligently analyze and discuss your topics. This discussion of the situation in Indonesia is equally well done. Theb only thing missing, I feel, is some statistical support. To say that 40% of the forests have been cut is important, but your description would be strengthend by a few examples that might make this even more tanglible. How many acres of forest are being cut a day? How many square miles of forest have been denuded in the last 10 years? How many board feet of timber are produced annually?
Aside from that, you need to think about several areas of language use, for example, the correct way of forming passives. Look at this example that you use: "it is recommends."
What's the problem there?
I think as a solution to save the Orang-utan... We should have more Zoo to adopt them though it is artificial I think its the best way to protect them
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