Indonesia

• Deforestation- due to palm oil (18bn of their GDP from oil)

  • Harvest 2x a week
  • Requires a permit so must be big business, so smaller businesses must expand
  • Under half of original rainforest- in 1960 80% of landscape was covered
• • Floods in 2006- impermeable land from cutting trees down removes the blockage
• • Forest fires in 1997-1998 there was burning of 8million hectares