Asian Environment Special

35,000km of rainforest is being cleared in Indonesia every year

Huge tracts of rainforests continue to be cleared in Southeast Asia, the world’s second largest emitter of carbon dioxide gases. 

101 East travels to the world’s oldest rainforest in Malaysia’s Taman Nagara park to investigate the implications for global warming of the continuing destruction of these primal nature reserves.

Illegal logging and expanding palm oil plantations are taking their toll as 35,000km of rainforest a year is being cleared in Indonesia – home to 10 per cent of the world’s rainforests.

Explaining the long-term effects of such wilderness depletion are acclaimed climatologist Ian Lowe, Greenpeace Southeast Asian head Emmy Hafild and Malaysian conservationist Faizal Parish.

Watch this episode of 101 East here:

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Part 2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei488zjE_6E

This episode of 101 East aired from 5 July 2007

101 East airs at 16:30GMT every Thursday on Al Jazeera English and is repeated during the week.

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