Future

Indonesia desperately needs to change and stop deforestation because if they don’t Indonesia's forests will face a very grim future. Some has been done to try to stop deforestation like having nearly 400 protected forested areas but the protection of these reserves is virtually nonexistent. Also with Indonesia’s magnificent wildlife, forests, coral reefs, cultural attractions, and warm seas, Indonesia has tremendous potential for eco-tourism, but little is actually done to promote it. Also, tourism itself has caused social issues and environmental problems from forest clearing, mangrove development, pollution, and resort construction. I believe very little more can be done to save Indonesia’s forests. I believe all they can do now is to prepare for the future and many people will have to make big sacrifices. Natives will either have to move somewhere else or adapt to their new environment without the forests. Thousands of people will lose their jobs in the logging industry because everything will be already cut down which will drastically lower their economy. Also without having that steady flow of money from the logging sector, Indonesia might have an economic depression and more and more people will lose their jobs and go into poverty. I believe the only way to face this horrible future of Indonesia is to prepare and if this horrible future ever does come true at least the people of Indonesia will be ready for it.

Hyperlink: http://www.enn.com/wildlife/article/31854

Short Summary of current event:
The article talks about how deforestation in a single Indonesian province is releasing more greenhouse gases than the Netherlands, and the loss of habitats is threatening rare tigers and elephants. It also talks about the Riau province which covers one fifth of Indonesia's Sumatra island, had lost 65 percent of its forests in the past 25 years as companies used the land for pulpwood and palm oil plantations. The Article also talks about how the number of Sumatran elephants and tigers in the province plunged as the forests vanished. It also says how the “Sumatra's elephants and tigers are disappearing even faster than their forests" and that’s because when they are driven from the forests, they come more often into conflict with people and they are killed.