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For Indonesia , the figures are as follows: </p> <p>- Loss of over 50% of its forest in the last fifty years </p> <p>- Two million hectares per year are destroyed, i.e. one football field every 15 seconds </p> <p>- 98% of tropical forests in Indonesia could disappear by 2022 </p> <p>- The main reason is the predicted tripling of oil palm plantations by that date </p> <p> <span class="sous-titre-grands-singes"> </span></p> </td><td valign="top"><div align="center"><a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/france/campagnes/forets"><img src="http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/image_full/france/photosvideos/photos/culture-de-palmier-a-huile.jpg" alt="Déforestation et huile de palme - © Greenpeace" width="430" height="287" hspace="8" border="0" class="bordure-blanc" title="Déforestation et huile de palme - © Greenpeace"><br> </a> © Greenpeace <br> </div></td> </tr> </table> <p><strong><em>The judicial context: laxity at all levels </em></strong></p> <p>Any company obtaining a concession from the provincial government can use and destroy the forest as they wish. </p> <p>These concessions can be ancestral lands belonging to forest peoples such as the Orang Rimba or Penan which have been stolen. </p> <p>The administrative situation is such that certain palm oil companies are now present in national parks, normally intended to protect the forest. </p> <p align="justify"> </p> <p><strong><em>Methods </em></strong></p> <p><u>By mechanical means </u></p> <p>Used for harvesting valuable tree species and timber for the paper mill, mechanical methods are becoming progressively more powerful and more destructive, and contribute to the fragmentation of the forest. </p> <p><u>By means of fire </u></p> <p>This method is becoming increasingly common and is even more destructive. </p> <p>The numerous arsons, illegal deliberately uncontrolled, destroy hundreds of thousands hectares each year. </p> <p>In some years, the situation is such that the airports in Malaysia , Singapore , Borneo and Sumatra have to be closed. </p> <p><strong><em>The reasons </em></strong></p> <p>In addition to the exploitation of forests for the supply of wood and paper, palm oil agriculture is one of the greatest threats to forests in Indonesia. </p> <p><u>The timber trade </u></p> <p>The timber trade supplies Europe and China with precious wood (teak, ebony) and Asia with paper pulp (acacia). Between 60% and 70% of this trade is illegal. </p> <p><u>Oil palm </u></p> <p>With an average size of 25,000 hectares per company, and consortiums using land amounting to several hundreds of thousands of acres, always in monoculture, it is a disaster for a region when it is targeted for palm oil production. </p> <p> </p> <p><span class="deco-borneo2"><strong> Palm oil </strong></span> </p> <p><strong><em>Use </em></strong></p> <p>Cosmetics, food, and what is becoming very, very worrying: agro fuels </p> <p><strong><em>Reasons for Success </em></strong></p> <p>This oil has a very low cost and multiple uses </p> <p> </p> <p><span class="deco-borneo2"><strong>The consequences of this deforestation and this consumption </strong></span> </p> <p><strong><em>Biodiversity </em></strong></p> <p>This is one of the areas where biodiversity is the greatest in the world: 10% to 15% of all known species of plants, mammals and birds coexist here, so a threat to this area is a disaster for all this biodiversity. </p> <p>It is predicted that deforestation will lead to extinction of orang-utans in 2022, and tigers, rhinos, elephants in Indonesia in 2028 (non-exhaustive list). </p> <p><strong><em>Soil </em></strong></p> <p>Deforestation leads to erosion, the loss of the protection that the soil offers the trees, and finally the sterilization of the soil all within six years. The average productive life of a palm plantation is 15 years. The company will seek other areas to be cleared. The utilised area become highly degraded secondary forest, with the loss of the important role played by primary forest. </p> <p><strong><em>Water </em></strong></p> <p>The eroded soil, no longer retains water, which then increases the risk of flooding. </p> <p><strong><em>Climate </em></strong></p> <p>There is disturbance of the water cycle and hence the climate, with a tendency to dryness, (which causes further serious disruption for fauna and flora). </p> <p><strong><em>Peatlands </em></strong></p> <p>The destruction of peatlands (which burn for months when the destruction is by fire) and Indonesian forests causes the emission of 1.8 billion tonnes of CO2 each year, representing 4% of annual global emissions. </p> <p>Therefore, Indonesia is the third largest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions in the world. </p> <p><strong><em>Local Employment </em></strong></p> <p>There is very low interest in creating employment for the local population because the vast majority of employees come from other islands and other countries (where labour is less expensive). </p> <p> </p> <table width="95%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="50%" valign="top"><div align="justify"> <p><strong><em>Social </em></strong></p> <p>The acquisitions of ancestral lands by force are accompanied by killings and violence against local populations and the associations which support them. There is a gradual loss of social life with the loss of that which gave it structure (food, habitat/protection, religious environment, the "long houses"). In the worst case it is the extermination of a people, such as the Orang Rimba people in Sumatra , which is happening before our eyes. </p> </div></td> <td><div align="center"><img src="Images/longhouse.jpg" width="376" height="214" hspace="8"><br> Long house</div></td> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <p><span class="deco-borneo2"> </span><span class="deco-borneo2"><strong>Fight against this phenomenon in the countries of consumption </strong></span> </p> <p>Only a change of our behaviour will stop the disaster that looms before our eyes. For us, this means adopting a new lifestyle to help preserve our forests. We need to think about our conduct, our way of life and our patterns of consumption. We need to ask ourselves questions. Dare to face the changes to our social environment, scrutinize labels, research provenances, and rethink our consumption needs. </p> <p><strong><em>Purchases in shops which sell "palm oil free" products </em></strong></p> <p>Cosmetics:<br> <br> <a href="http://www.lush.co.uk/"><strong>Lush</strong></a> <br> <a href="http://www.essential-care.co.uk/"><strong>Essential Care</strong></a><br> <a href="http://www.littlesatsuma.com/"><strong>Little Satsuma </strong></a> <br> <a href="http://www.customvintage.com.au/"><strong>Custom vintage</strong></a><a href="http://www.littlesatsuma.com/"><strong> </strong></a> <br> <a href="http://www.theorganicalbotanical.com/"><strong>Organical Botanical</strong></a><br> </p> <p><strong><em>Exotic Woods </em></strong></p> <p>- Enforcing laws: in France , 40% of tropical timber comes from illegal sources </p> <p>- Require the FSC label (reminder: it does not exist for Indonesian timber) </p> <p> </p> <p><strong><em>Bio fuels </em></strong></p> <p>The biofuels from intensive monocultures appears not to be a good solution for the future in terms of ecology. Instead it is preferable to encourage the development of other types of engines as opposed to those using biofuels. </p> <p> </p> <p><strong><em>Food products</em></strong></p> <ul> <li>Recognize them </li> </ul> <p>There is no label, even the organic or vegan labels can contain palm oil. </p> <p>It remains only to examine the labels. This oil is called "palm oil", "palmate", sometimes simply "vegetable oil ". <a href="#" onClick="window.open('libelle_huile_de_palme_eng.htm', 'titre','width=599,height=400,left=40,top=40,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes')">All terms for palm oil</a> . </p> <p> </p> <ul> <li>Replace them </li> </ul> <p>Replace sandwich loaf with real bread, cooking yourself... </p> <p>You can choose: </p> <p>- Ready meals with olive oil </p> <p>- Cakes, pastries made with pure butter </p> <p>- Butter and not margarine </p> <blockquote><hr class="hr"> <p> A film that says more than a thousand words :<a href="http://greenthefilm.com">GREEN</a> </p> <hr class="hr"> </blockquote> <p>Sources :</p> <p><a href="http://www.unep.org/grasp/docs/2007Jan-LastStand-of-Orangutan-report.pdf">UNEP - United Nations report - 2007</a> <br> <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/content/france/presse/dossiers-documents/cooking-the-climate.pdf"> Greenpeace </a><a href="http://www.unep.org/grasp/docs/2007Jan-LastStand-of-Orangutan-report.pdf">report</a><a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/content/france/presse/dossiers-documents/cooking-the-climate.pdf"> : illegal logging, palm oil, climate change - 2007 </a><br> </p> <p> </p></td> </tr> </table> <hr class='hr' width="88%"> <br> <table width="790" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td valign="top"> <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" name="_xclick" > <table width="90%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td width="30%" valign="top" align="center"> <div class="arrondi_bas_page_bleu"> <span class="titre_bas_page">Donations</span><br /> <p>The project needs a lot of donors and supporters.</p> You can help !<br /> By credit card or Paypal :<br /> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="kalaweit.france@yahoo.fr"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Donation Kalaweit"> <input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="tax" value="0"> <input type="hidden" name="return" value="http://www.kalaweit.org/don_recu_eng.php" /> <input type="hidden" name="cancel_return" value="http://www.kalaweit.org/dons_erreur_eng.php" /> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> <input type="hidden" name="lc" value="EN" /> <input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="0"> <input type="image" style="border-color:#000000 " src="Images/carte_bancaire.jpg" border="1" name="submit" alt="Donation" /> <br /> <br /> <br /> </div> </td> <td width="4%"></td> <td width="30%" valign="top" align="center"> <div class="arrondi_bas_page_bleu"><span class="titre_bas_page">Radio Kalaweit</span><br /><p>Live, listen to the musical radio created by Kalaweit in order to raise awareness among the local populations <br /><a href="http://119.110.76.51:8046/listen.pls" target="_blank"><br><img src="Images/Logo_Kalaweit_Radio.JPG" width="110" height="60" border="0" style="border:1px solid green"></a></div> </td> <td width="4%"> </td> <td width="33%" valign="top" align="center"><div class="arrondi_bas_page_bleu"> <span class="titre_bas_page">Kalaweit Shop on line</span><br /> <p>Buy a product from our store allows the development of the project.</p> <p><a href="http://www.kalaweit.sitodi.com/index.php?page=1" target="_blank">Decal, DVD, Videos, Books, Stuffed Animals, Photography, T-shirt etc. </a></p> </div></td> </tr> </table> </form> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="3"> <hr class="hr"> <div align="center"><font size=3 color="#CCCCCC" face="Papyrus"><img src="Images/icone_singe.jpg" hspace="10" align="absmiddle" >"If Humans learn one day to love life, all the life, Kalaweit will no longer have to struggle... 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