According to the environmental campaign organisation, Indonesia’s rate of deforestation, 51km2 a day, is second only to Brazil and must be addressed or “the next generation of Indonesians will not see any forest”.
Guinness World Records has now approved Greenpeace‘s request that the figure be included in the 2008 book and this will further the group’s call for a moratorium on commercial logging throughout the country.
In a demonstration held on March 16, Greenpeace activists ceremonially used chainsaws to destroy a 20m wood wall in central Jakarta in order to highlight the destruction of the country’s forests.
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